About Olena
Dr Olena Edwards-Skadowska is a Psychotherapist, Wellbeing and Resilience Coach and the Founding Director of London Trusted Therapy Harley Street.
Olena trained in Counselling and Psychotherapy under Professor Del Lowenthal in London following a successful international career as an Education Consultant.
With over 20 years of wide-ranging experience in the field, in everything from voluntary organisations and private practices to a refugee centre and NHS referral services, Olena’s broad knowledge base and versatile skillset has gained her a solid reputation both amongst peers and clients at Harley Therapy practice, Pregma UK and Kingston Women’s Centre prior to London Trusted Therapy Harley Street.
Olena was trained as an Integrative Psychotherapist ( PgDip) and Relationship and Psychosexual Therapist ( London Diploma) , which allows her to use a variety of approaches (Psychoanalytic, Existential/Phenomenological, Person-Centred, CBT, Gottman Method ) to find the optimum way in addressing her clients’ needs and tailoring the processes of acceptance, healing and further growth. She favours the Existential modality, leveraging her background in Linguistics (MA), Philosophy (PhD) , Trauma and Relationship training and neurodivergence ( ADHD and ASD informed therapy).
Olena has studied and lived internationally and worked extensively with issues of diversity and racial and cultural integration. She works with adolescents, adults, couples and families.
Olena’s areas of expertise lie in working with depression and anxiety, loss and bereavement, marriage and relationships, trauma, parenting issues, self-esteem, work and careers, cancer and problems raised by addiction and abuse. Olena’s clinical interest also lies in working with clients diagnosed with adult ADHD and ASD, she has also worked extensively with LGBTQ community. She delivers both short-term and open-ended, long-term therapy.
Olena views therapy as a shared journey and believes in equality in therapeutic relationship.
Olena is also a published author. Her first book for children, “Anxie the Hedgehog”, an allegorical tale and a crash course in managing anxiety for people of all ages was published in August 2024 and was translated into 5 languages.
Olena likes philosophy, fashion, dogs, theatre and walks in nature
Works with:
- Individuals
- Couples
- Families
Areas of expertise:
- Abuse
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Anger
- Affairs
- Anxiety
- Autism
- Bereavement
- Breakdown
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career Challenges
- Childhood Trauma
- CPTSD
- Crisis
- Depression
- Emotional Abuse
- Fear
- Feeling Alone / Isolated
- List ItemGender Identity
- Health Issues
- Identity Crisis
- Indecisiveness
- LGBTQ issues
- Loss of Meaning
- Low Self-Esteem
- Motivation / Focus
- Negative Thinking
- Phobias
- PTSD , CPTSD
- Relationship Problems
- Self Sabotage
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleep Disorders
- Stress
- Trauma
- Race and Culture
Languages:
- English
- Ukrainian
- Russian
Testimonial
I have been seeing Dr Olena for almost a year to work through some difficult issues around parenting and my own trauma that entered from the past and was impacting my life and the people around me. Her warm and compassionate manner, as well as incredible amount of therapeutic knowledge, skill and wisdom, was so much needed and I felt from the very first session that I was at the right place and with the right person to help me through a very difficult time. Through the course of my sessions, I benefited so much from our deep insightful dialogue as well acquired some tools for self-care and wellbeing that I shared with my family. I am very grateful to have met her on my journey and my recovery is a huge credit to her dedication and compassion.
Michelle
