Edgars Semenovs, BACP

Edgars Semenovs is a trauma-informed counsellor who creates a welcoming, paced environment where individuals can explore difficult memories, emotions, behaviours and relationships. Drawing on his own lived experience of trauma and past addictions, he brings a blend of professional training and personal insight to support clients through recovery and growth.

His practice integrates a range of therapeutic approaches, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Compassion-Focused techniques, Solution-Focused methods, Trauma-Informed Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Focusing (Gendlin), Clean Language Inquiry, and Existential psychotherapy. This integrative approach allows him to tailor sessions to each person - addressing symptoms, patterns, and the bodily experience of trauma.

Edgars trained as an integrative counsellor and earned a first class Level 5 qualification. His further training includes Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for trauma themes (Level 1) and developmental injury (Level 2), and embodied Clean Language coaching. He has worked with organisations focused on alcohol, drug and pornography addictions, served as an NHS staff counsellor, and has experience in mental health recovery services, mental health hospitals and crisis teams. He maintains a daily practice of yoga, meditation and Qigong, and these embodied practices influence his therapeutic presence and methods.

Central to his work is a belief in each person’s capacity for healing when provided with supportive conditions that foster acceptance and self-compassion. He emphasizes reconnecting with inherent worthiness and the ability to pause, attend to feelings with kindness, and build new ways of coping. Some client feedback includes: 'I feel like I can accept myself and I feel more positive about the future', 'I feel like I am now kinder to myself', 'No matter what happens, I've always got me', and 'I feel more empowered knowing that I can always take a pause and attend to my feelings with compassion'.

Edgars is a BACP registered member - that is, registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and his clinical focus covers stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, depression, family and parenting concerns, grief, eating issues, anger, self-esteem, career challenges, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue and other related areas. He is not currently accepting new clients.