Edgars Semenovs , BACP

Edgars Semenovs is a trauma-informed counsellor who creates a welcoming, paced space where people can gently explore painful memories, thoughts, feelings, behaviours and relationships. He draws on a broad range of therapeutic methods to support healing, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for trauma themes and developmental injury, Compassion-Focused approaches, Solution-Focused work, Trauma-Informed Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Focusing (Gendlin), Clean Language Inquiry, and Existential psychotherapy. This integrative stance allows him to adapt to each person's needs and to combine practical strategies with deeper, body-focused and reflective work.

His commitment to counselling grew from personal experience of trauma and recovery from addictions, experiences that inform a sense of confidence in the capacity for change. He aims to provide the conditions that help people attend to unresolved wounds from the past and to build self-compassion and acceptance in the present. He also draws on lived practices - a daily routine of yoga, meditation and Qigong - which have influenced his emotional wellbeing and approach to therapy.

He has worked with organisations addressing alcohol, drug and pornography addictions, served as an NHS staff counsellor, and has practical experience in mental health recovery services, mental health hospitals and crisis teams. His formal training includes a Level 5 integrative counselling qualification awarded with first-class recognition, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy training at Levels 1 and 2, and training in embodied Clean Language coaching. Some clients have shared reflections such as 'I feel like I can accept myself and I feel more positive about the future' and 'I feel like I am now kinder to myself.' He is a BACP registered individual member - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy is the professional organisation for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK.