Светослав Савов

I am Svetoslav Savov, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. I offer a confidential space for adults who want to understand their emotional difficulties, repeating patterns and the challenges in their relationships, and to work toward lasting change. I work with anxiety and persistent worry, low mood, depression and loss of motivation, relationship difficulties and recurring conflict, trauma, grief and life transitions, burnout and chronic stress, and parenting difficulties.

I have been in clinical practice since 2009. I hold a BA in Psychology from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (2005), an MA in Clinical Psychology with a psychoanalytic perspective from New Bulgarian University (2009), and a PhD in Psychology from New Bulgarian University (2016). In 2017 I qualified as a psychoanalyst through the Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern Europe Han-Groen Prakken and the Bulgarian Psychoanalytic Society. From 2009 to 2015 I took part in clinical seminars at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute Karl Abraham.

Psychoanalysis is usually three to five times a week, on the analytic couch. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is usually once or twice a week, sitting face to face. Initial consultations are usually two to four sessions, to assess the situation and propose options, without a commitment to long-term therapy. I see people in person in Gandía, in the Valencia region, and online internationally. Sessions are in English and Bulgarian.