Sandra Koivurinta

I currently have limited availability for both in-person and online sessions. You’re welcome to contact me and see if we can find a suitable time.

I offer a space where you can bring the messy, painful, frightening, or confusing parts of yourself and your life stories. Together, we can slowly begin to explore what may lie beneath current concerns and repeating patterns, make sense of past and present experiences, and develop greater awareness of your ways of being. This process can support you in relating more compassionately to yourself, connecting with others, and engaging with life in a more grounded and meaningful way.

My background

I have worked and studied across different countries with children, young people, families, and adults within education, mental health, and social care settings. I currently work in the third sector, providing psychotherapeutic support to children and young people, and I am also involved in further education through counselling training for adults.

I hold the following qualifications:

• Doctorate of Psychotherapy and Counselling, University of Edinburgh

• Master of Science in International Relations, University of Edinburgh

• Bachelor of Social Work, Lund University

• Postqualifying diploma in Psychotherapy (Children & Adolescents), UKCP-accredited

• Postgraduate diploma in Counselling (Adults), COSCA-validated

• Certificate in Clinical Supervision, UKCP-accredited

• Certificate in Academic Practice, Associate Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy

• Selected additional training: Emotionally-focused Family Therapy, Mentalisation-based Treatment for Families, Infant Observation, Group Work, Creative Methods, Somatic Trauma Therapy.

Psychodynamic theory forms the core of my practice, integrated with systemic, somatic, and creative approaches. This work explores the deeper, often unconscious layers of thoughts, emotions, bodily experiences, and relational patterns, including how past experiences may be repeated or re-enacted in the present, alongside the influence of social, political, and cultural contexts on emotional wellbeing. It can be helpful for those experiencing longstanding emotional difficulties, trauma responses, relationship challenges, self-criticism, unresolved past experiences, identity-related concerns, or looking for self-exploration.

We will work at your pace, focusing on what feels most important to you. I work with whatever you bring, whether that involves healing from difficult experiences, managing losses, conflicts, and life transitions, or seeking a greater sense of connection.

If this resonates, please get in touch to arrange an introductory call. You can also email me any questions you may have.

In the first instance, we can arrange a brief introductory call so you can ask questions, and we can explore what has brought you to therapy, what you are hoping to gain, and how I might support you.

I work primarily with teenagers and young adults. Where appropriate, sessions may include one or more parents or carers.

In-person sessions are held in a home office, accessed via two short flights of stairs with a landing in between. There is currently no step-free or wheelchair access. A dog resides on the premises but is not present in the therapy room. Online sessions are available as an alternative.

Sessions are 50 minutes and usually take place weekly at the same time and day.

I offer both online and in-person sessions. Feel free to get in touch so we can explore how supervision might support your work. 

I hold a Certificate in Clinical Supervision and I am working towards a UKCP-accredited Diploma in Supervision. Concessionary rates are available for supervision in recognition of this. 

I offer supervision to therapists, counsellors, and practitioners working with children and young people. My integrative approach draws from psychodynamic, creative, somatic, and systemic models, supporting reflection across a variety of settings.

Supervision will be collaborative and relationship-centered. I provide a space to explore clinical material, emotional dynamics, and the wider environmental, social, institutional, cultural, and political factors that influence therapeutic work. 

Sessions aim to support reflection, professional development, and ethical practice.