Stilyana Massey, BACP

Stilyana Massey is a BACP-credentialed therapist based in the United Kingdom with 4 years of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She works with a wide range of concerns including panic, attachment and abandonment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, relationship challenges, and questions about life purpose and self-love.

Her approach emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and she adapts conversations and treatment plans to reflect each person’s unique circumstances and goals. Stilyana combines practical strategies with reflective, client-centered support to help clients build coping skills, improve communication, and navigate transitions such as divorce, pregnancy and childbirth, or chronic health challenges.

Stilyana holds BACP credentials - membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK. She offers therapy in English and Bulgarian and frames the first step toward change as an act of courage. Stilyana aims to provide steady support as clients explore healing, set achievable goals, and work toward a more fulfilling life.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Stilyana commonly draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a warm, non-judgmental space where clients lead the pace and focus of sessions. This approach emphasizes empathy and listening, and is often helpful for building self-esteem, processing grief, or navigating life transitions.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours. CBT offers practical tools to manage symptoms of anxiety, panic, and depression and to develop coping strategies for daily stressors.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative part of the work. Stilyana will explore a client’s needs, goals, and preferences and tailor methods from these approaches so they fit the individual. Clients and therapist decide together which strategies to try and how to adapt them over time.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect - through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules or to keep continuity when life is unpredictable. These options can help clients access consistent support, try different session styles, and find the rhythm that best supports their progress.