Petra Alena Todorov, BACP

Petra Alena Todorov is a UK-based psychotherapist and coach who combines clinical training with extensive experience in organisational settings to support adults, couples, and groups through difficult life transitions. She brings over 8 years of clinical practice alongside more than 14 years working in global organisations, which gives her a practical, empathic perspective when helping people manage anxiety, stress, identity questions, emotional regulation, and relationship dynamics.

She holds professional credentials including UKCP registration, BACP membership, certification in Transactional Analysis, and coaching accreditation from the ICF - qualifications that reflect formal training in psychotherapy, counselling standards, therapeutic theory, and professional coaching. Petra blends Transactional Analysis with trauma-informed methods, CBT-informed techniques, and systemic tools to create an approach that is warm, grounded, and collaborative rather than purely theoretical.

Petra is particularly attentive to neurodiversity, cultural identity, and LGBTQ+ experiences, and she emphasises responsive, nonjudgmental spaces where every aspect of a person can be acknowledged. Her work also addresses practical relationship concerns such as blended family issues, communication problems, infidelity, and separation, alongside deeper challenges like abandonment, attachment difficulties, guilt, shame, and dissociation. By combining clinical skill with lived experience of the corporate world, she aims to help people feel understood and supported while working toward meaningful change.

Psychodynamic, Trauma-Focused, and Systemic Care Online

Petra draws on psychodynamic therapy to explore how past experiences and unconscious patterns influence current feelings and relationships - an approach that can help with long-standing issues around attachment, identity, and repeated relational patterns. Trauma-focused therapy is used to address the impact of distressing experiences, offering structured ways to process painful memories and reduce their ongoing effects on mood and behaviour. Systemic therapy looks at relationship dynamics and family systems, helping couples and families address communication problems, blended family challenges, and patterns that affect multiple people.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey and Petra treats this as a collaborative process. She works with each person or couple to identify goals, assess what feels most useful, and adapt methods over time so the work stays aligned with the client’s needs and preferences.

Online sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make therapy more flexible and accessible for people balancing work, caregiving, or geographic limits. These options allow for consistent contact, easier scheduling, and the chance to work with a registered professional from a setting that fits your life, while maintaining the same clinical focus and therapeutic relationship you would expect from in-person care.