Katarina Simonovicova

Psychodynamic Counsellor, Psychologist

katarina@southsidecounselling.co.uk
0781 7366346

Sessions last 50 minutes and cost £55.
Katarina offers face-to-face, phone and online sessions.

About Katarina

Katarina is a Psychodynamic Counsellor and Psychologist offering individual counselling both short and long term with a limited number of discounted sessions available. She listens carefully to what brought you to counselling. Working psychodynamically, she offers you a space to explore your current situation in relation to events and repeating themes in your life.

She understands that anyone can experience distress and can find themselves struggling and believes that her connection to her clients is most vital in therapy. It builds a safe space from where you can be supported to explore the issues that brought you to therapy. Katarina will work to increase your self-awareness, to encourage you to be open towards changing unresolved issues, to develop a deeper acceptance of yourself and to foster further growth. This process is aided by Katarina’s extensive theoretical knowledge rooted in psychology, psychotherapy and counselling.

Prior to counselling Katarina achieved an MSc. in Psychology, and worked for years with young people and in community projects, particularly in the areas of equality and diversity.

Katarina works with a range of issues including:

Relationship difficulties
Family issues
Depression
Anxiety
Stress
Bereavement and loss
Suicidal thoughts
Self-harming
Anger
Work related issues
Trauma
Sexuality
Low self-esteem
Difficulties around cultural identity, race and migration

Languages

Katarina offers counselling in English, Slovak and Czech.

training and experience

Katarina has a Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling (2020) from The Garnethill Centre. She has been teaching on the COSCA accredited counselling course since 2023.

While grounded in the psychodynamic approach, she continues expanding her skills set to be able to offer varied ways to support clients. She is currently studying COSCA’s Certificate in Counselling Supervision through Crossreach.

Certificate in Counselling Supervision Skills. Crossreach, 2024
Mentalizing and mentalization based therapy with adults-introduction, Anna Freud Insititute, 2024
Solution focused therapy-introduction, 2021
Anxiety and one session therapy with Windy Dryden, 2020
How to do counselling online. Open University, 2020

Professional Bodies

Katarina is a Registered member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme run by Disclosure Scotland, for adults and children. She has undertaken suicide intervention and awareness training and child safety training.

She is registered with (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA) and adheres to their Code of Ethics. She became an individual member of Garnethill Counselling Association in 2020.

She has been working in a supervised counselling practice since February 2018.

She has been registered with the British Psychological Society (BPS) since 2007.