Anastasia Miloslavskaya, ACA

Anastasia Miloslavskaya is an ACA counsellor with five years' experience based in Australia. She works with people facing grief, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, career decisions and ADHD-related difficulties. Anastasia welcomes straightforward conversations and practical steps rather than long theoretical talks.

Before opening her practice she lived and studied across four countries and worked in a range of organisations. That background shaped her interest in helping people adjust to big life changes, including immigration and relocation strain. She notes how grief and loneliness connected to these changes can be underestimated and says early attention helps prevent deeper struggles.

In sessions she draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, client-centred ways of working and elements of CBT and DBT. She uses these methods to help people build coping skills, clarify values and develop steadier emotional responses. Therapy often includes practical exercises and clear steps to try between meetings.

Anastasia pays attention to relationships with partners, parents and family of origin, and to issues like communication, control, guilt and forgiveness. She also supports people dealing with body image, isolation or life-purpose questions. Her style is direct and attentive, focusing on what needs to change now rather than long labels.

Outside work she spends time on creative projects such as painting and writing. That creative outlook shows in clinical work as a preference for flexible, personalised ways to tackle problems. To begin, she asks people to describe where they are struggling and what small, manageable change they would notice first.

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