Natalia Solovieva

I am a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and a Chartered Counselling Psychologist registered with BPS, BACP, and with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). I hold a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and can work with both English-speaking and Russian-speaking individuals.

I have over 20 years’ experience in offering psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the NHS, voluntary, and private sectors, practicing in the UK and abroad. I have worked extensively with adult patients presenting with moderate and severe mental health conditions, including relationship difficulties, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, traumatic experiences, sexual and emotional childhood trauma, and personality disorders.

I see the power of psychoanalytic psychotherapy as helping people understand themselves and others better. This approach helps people to address relationship issues with themselves, loved ones, friends, and colleagues, and helps where individuals are struggling with feeling very stuck in their lives, not fulfilling their potential, feeling empty, or unable to move on. I help my patients with overcoming relationship problems, blocks in their careers, or a sense of having lost direction and meaning. 

Couples who benefit from this therapeutic approach often  seek help with volatile and often futile arguing, feeling distant, not being able to communicate their thoughts and feelings helpfully, having shared traumatic experiences like affairs, loss of a job, going through transitional periods in life like moving countries, trying to have children, changing jobs, retiring, or becoming unwell.  Psychodynamic couple therapy can help to think together about what is going on and help them to clarify why the relationship is under stress or why communication has broken down.

I have carried out and published several research projects into areas of borderline personality disorder, sexual deviations, complexities of the therapeutic relationship, and issues of female infertility. My recent interest has been in supporting young adults with turbulent transitions into adulthood and with the development and discovery of their own identity. I also offer reflective practice and consultancy to teams and organisations in business, voluntary, and NHS sectors.

n.solovieva@qaspractice.com