Petra Alena Todorov, BACP

Petra Alena Todorov is a counsellor with eight years of clinical experience and a BACP credential. She offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief and low self-esteem. Petra uses a conversational, collaborative style to help people make sense of difficult moments and find clearer next steps.

Petra works from approaches that look at how past patterns shape present life. She draws on psychodynamic ideas to notice repeated relationship themes and on systemic thinking to see how family and social networks influence current struggles. Trauma-focused methods are used when past events continue to cause distress.

Sessions focus on what matters to the individual. Petra helps people talk through emotions, understand unhelpful patterns, and try out new ways of coping. She also offers coaching-style support for practical goals and life transitions, such as career change or identity shifts.

Her experience includes working in global organisations, which she uses to relate to workplace stress and cultural identity concerns. Petra is attentive to issues like attachment wounds, abandonment, codependency, caregiver stress and challenges around blended families.

She works in English and Romanian and practises in the United Kingdom. Petra’s approach aims to combine clinical understanding with everyday empathy so people feel heard and able to make incremental changes.

How Psychodynamic, Trauma-Focused and Systemic Approaches Work Online

Psychodynamic work looks at repeated patterns and early relationships that shape current emotions and choices. Online sessions can be used to notice these themes and try different ways of responding to familiar problems.

Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on the effects of distressing events and on building stronger regulation skills. In remote sessions this can involve paced conversations, grounding techniques and revisiting memories at a pace that feels manageable.

Systemic therapy considers how family, work and cultural networks affect a person’s life. Conversations explore patterns between people and how changes in one relationship can shift others.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Petra will work with the client to decide which methods best match their needs, goals and preferences, and may combine elements from different approaches to suit the situation.

Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and avoiding travel time. Online work can also make it easier to maintain continuity during life transitions. Confirm the current session options with the service before booking to ensure the format meets personal needs.