Phaidra-Polyxeni (Xenia) Kaspar, NCPS

Phaidra-Polyxeni (Xenia) Kaspar is a registered counsellor based in the South of the United Kingdom who combines professional training with lived experience to support clients facing a wide range of challenges. She brings three years of clinical practice to her work and holds the NCPS credential, a recognised professional counselling qualification, and she is a CPCAB approved counselling tutor. She draws on personal experience with trauma, grief, and neurodiversity to inform an empathetic, respectful approach that honours each personâs story.

She works with individuals, couples, and groups, and regularly leads Mindfulness, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, and Non Violent Resistance group sessions. Her practice addresses stress and anxiety, relationship and family conflicts, trauma and abuse, depression and grief, addiction concerns, parenting and intimacy issues, sleep difficulties, career transitions, and compassion fatigue, among other areas. Sessions are tailored to the specific needs of each client, with a collaborative focus on practical strategies and emotional understanding.

As a single mother of three teenage daughters and an adult son, she understands the pressures of family life alongside clinical responsibilities. She aims to create a working relationship marked by sensitivity, respect, and compassion, and she supports clients in taking the first steps toward change and resilience.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites clients to clarify what matters most to them and to practice accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while taking value-driven action. It is often helpful for people managing anxiety, stress, and life transitions and for anyone seeking practical tools to move forward despite emotional discomfort.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional responses. This approach can be useful for addressing intimacy difficulties, abandonment concerns, family conflicts, and patterns that repeat across relationships.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes learning concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It can help people who experience intense emotions or struggle with managing conflict and communication in relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey, and the therapist collaborates with each client to identify methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Registered professionals often blend techniques and adjust the focus as work progresses to ensure the best match for the person in front of them.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage with therapeutic work through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, accommodate different comfort levels with communication, and support people who live in different locations, including international clients.