Anxiety and overthinking.
Counselling & Psychotherapywith Ksenia Gorenstein · PGDip, MBACP
More than one thing can be true.
You can love someone and want to leave. Feel grateful for your life and know that something is missing. Understand where a pattern comes from and still find yourself repeating it. Want things to change and feel frightened by what change might ask of you.
London Bridge · Online from anywhere
01 · Therapy
You do not have to make it sound reasonable first.
We often try to settle these contradictions by deciding which feeling is the reasonable one. Which version of ourselves is the real one. Which part should be listened to, and which part needs to get over it.
Therapy can offer another way of meeting what is happening. We can become curious about the different aspects of you, what they have been protecting, and what may have been pushed aside along the way. Not everything needs to be resolved immediately. Sometimes it first needs to be heard.
You do not need to arrive with a clear explanation.
What people bring
Life transitions.
Relationships.
Identity, sexuality and belonging.
Living between cultures.
Work and creative pressure.
Loss and grief.
Trauma, recent and long ago.
02 · My approach
A psychology that makes room for the whole person.
I work with psychosynthesis, a relational and integrative approach that considers the whole of you: thoughts, feelings, body, history, relationships, imagination and the search for meaning.
Rather than treating difficult aspects of you as problems to eliminate, we can become curious about how they developed and what they may still be trying to do for you.
Psychosynthesis also holds that we are more than what has hurt us. Therapy can make room not only for pain and survival, but for choice, connection, humour, purpose and the parts of life that want to become more fully lived.
03 · About Ksenia
Warm, direct and comfortable with complexity.
Before becoming a counsellor, I spent many years working across film, music, live events and the wider entertainment industry. I understand demanding creative environments from the inside: the energy, intensity and uncertainty, and the pressure to keep delivering when things feel rather less composed underneath.
My own life has been shaped by migration and by belonging to more than one culture, so I know that identity is rarely simple.
We are all made of many layers: where we come from, race, class, sexuality, gender, faith, disability, how much money there was, whether we moved or stayed. These layers shape what we carry and how the world meets us, and they all have a place in the room.
Alongside my therapeutic practice, I work at WONDER Foundation, an international charity supporting women and girls through education and mentoring. This work keeps me close to the wider circumstances that shape what becomes possible in a person’s life.
PGDip Psychosynthesis Counselling
04 · Practicalities
How it works.
- 50 minutes
- Weekly
- London Bridge or online
- £60 to £90, sliding scale
- Weekday, evening and Saturday morning appointments
More to It Therapy offers psychosynthesis counselling with Ksenia Gorenstein, PGDip, MBACP. Sessions are weekly and last 50 minutes, in person near London Bridge or online from anywhere, on a sliding scale of £60 to £90. I am currently accepting new clients.
Sessions
Weekly, 50 minutes
Short-term counselling or open-ended therapy. You do not need to decide which before we begin; we can review the work together as it goes. Weekday, evening and Saturday morning appointments are available.
Location
In person or online
In person a few minutes from London Bridge station, or online by video from anywhere. The building is wheelchair accessible.
Fees
A sliding scale
Sessions are £60 to £90, on a sliding scale, because I want therapy to be accessible to people in different financial circumstances. The fee depends on the time of day and on what is manageable for you, and I will suggest a fee before your first session. Sessions are paid by bank transfer.
I work with adults of all backgrounds, cultures, identities and orientations.
Get in touchQuestions people often ask
A few things people want to know before they begin.
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05 · Begin
You do not need to know exactly where to begin.
An initial session is a chance to bring whatever has led you to seek support, ask anything you want to know, and experience how it feels to work together. It is a first meeting, not a commitment to continue. Afterwards, you decide.
There is nothing to prepare and nothing you have to get right. We talk about what brings you, what you would like to be different, and anything you want to ask me. We go at your pace. And if it turns out I am not the right fit, I will help you think about what might suit you better.
Would you rather speak first? You can book a complimentary 15-minute call.