Silvina — Integrative Counsellor in Stevenage & Letchworth, Hertfordshire

At a Glance

Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP)
Accredited Registrant — National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (MNCPS Acc.)
Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling — CPCAB
Individual counselling · EAP counselling · Organisational referrals
Integrative counselling: Person-Centred · Psychodynamic · Trauma-informed
Specialist: financial abuse recovery · cultural transition · Latin American community · trauma and abuse · bilingual English/Spanish
Face-to-face in Stevenage and Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire · Online and telephone UK-wide
Adults (18+) · Older adults · EAP clients
£65 per session
Monday to Friday — daytime and evenings · Saturday mornings
Sessions available in English and Spanish
Free 15-minute consultation — no commitment, no pressure

Integrative Counsellor in Stevenage & Letchworth — About Silvina

People come to counselling carrying things that are hard to put into words — feelings that circle without resolution, patterns that keep appearing, a sense of being somehow disconnected from yourself or from the life you thought you’d be living. Silvina’s work begins where words run out: with patience, genuine curiosity, and a way of being present with another person that many describe as immediately settling.

Silvina is a qualified integrative counsellor working in Stevenage and Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire, offering face-to-face sessions at both locations and online and telephone counselling across the UK. She holds a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (CPCAB), is a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP), and an Accredited Registrant of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (MNCPS Acc.). She is bilingual in English and Spanish, offering counselling in both languages — one of very few bilingual therapists in Hertfordshire and available online to Spanish-speaking clients anywhere in the UK.

Her integrative approach draws on Person-Centred counselling as its foundation, integrating psychodynamic understanding and trauma-informed practice. This means sessions are shaped around what you bring rather than a fixed framework — adapted to your pace, your needs, and what is genuinely most useful for you at each stage of the work.

Background & Experience

Silvina has built her practice around some of the most specific and underserved areas of counselling need — financial abuse recovery, cultural transition, and the complex psychological dimension of being Latin American in the UK. Each of these reflects not just specialist training but genuine understanding developed through direct clinical experience and, in the case of cultural transition and identity, lived familiarity with what it means to navigate two worlds simultaneously.

She has extensive experience supporting survivors of domestic, sexual, and psychological abuse, and works with a broad range of individual presentations including anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, women’s issues, and work-related stress. She embraces diversity and works with people from all backgrounds, identities, and life experiences. Silvina receives regular clinical supervision and is committed to maintaining the highest standards of ethical practice in line with BACP and NCPS requirements.

Financial Abuse Recovery Counselling

Financial abuse is one of the most overlooked forms of psychological harm — and one of the most damaging. Whether experienced through family members exploiting financial vulnerability, fraudulent scams targeting people in difficult circumstances, or coercive control with a financial dimension, the impact reaches well beyond the financial loss itself. It can shatter trust, undermine confidence, create deep shame, and leave people uncertain about their own judgement in ways that persist long after the practical situation has been resolved.

Silvina has developed specialist experience supporting people navigating the psychological aftermath of financial exploitation — both those targeted by scams and those whose finances have been controlled or misappropriated by family members. Her person-centred and trauma-informed approach provides a non-judgmental space in which the particular complexity of this experience can be explored. Financial abuse counsellor UK online. Financial exploitation counsellor Hertfordshire. Scam victim counselling UK. Financial abuse recovery counselling online.

Cultural Transition and Identity — Latin American Community

Moving to a new country involves losses that are rarely named as such. The loss of fluency — not just in language but in belonging, in reading social situations, in knowing how things work. The slow erosion of the version of yourself that existed back home. The difficulty of maintaining connection to heritage while genuinely belonging somewhere new. These experiences are real and often profound, and they deserve to be met in counselling by someone who understands them from the inside rather than from a theoretical distance.

Silvina was born and grew up in Argentina, and brings both lived experience and professional expertise to her work with Latin American clients in the UK. She understands the particular psychological dimensions of cultural transition — the identity shifts, the subtle and not-so-subtle losses, the question of where you belong when you are between two cultures — and works with clients navigating these experiences in both English and Spanish. Cultural transition counsellor UK. Latin American counsellor UK. Counsellor for immigrants Hertfordshire. Spanish speaking counsellor UK online. Bilingual counsellor Hertfordshire.

Bilingual Counselling — English and Spanish

Silvina offers counselling in both English and Spanish. For many Spanish-speaking clients, the ability to work in their first language is not simply a matter of preference — it is a matter of depth. Certain things are easier to reach, certain feelings more accurately named, certain experiences more fully expressed in the language in which they were first lived. Silvina’s bilingual practice makes her work accessible to Spanish-speaking clients anywhere in the UK through online and telephone sessions, as well as face-to-face in Stevenage and Letchworth for those in Hertfordshire. Spanish counsellor UK. Counsellor en español UK. Terapia en español Hertfordshire. Bilingual counsellor online UK.

Therapeutic Approaches

Person-Centred counselling

The foundation of Silvina’s integrative practice — offering genuine warmth, empathy, and unconditional positive regard. A non-judgmental space in which you can think, feel, and explore without managing how you come across or where the session is going. Person-Centred counsellor Stevenage and Letchworth.

Psychodynamic counselling

Integrated alongside the person-centred foundation, psychodynamic understanding brings attention to how early experiences and relational patterns may be shaping present-day responses — exploring what has developed over time, often below conscious awareness, in ways that now create difficulty. Psychodynamic counsellor Hertfordshire online.

Trauma-informed practice

Silvina’s trauma-informed approach ensures that pacing, emotional safety, and the development of internal resources remain central throughout the work — particularly important when working with survivors of abuse or those navigating the ongoing impact of traumatic experience. Trauma-informed counsellor Stevenage and online UK.

Areas of Focus

Silvina offers face-to-face counselling in Stevenage and Letchworth and online and telephone counselling across the UK. The following are her primary areas of focus alongside her specialist work.

Anxiety and stress

Anxiety counselling in Stevenage and Letchworth and online with Silvina — working with worry, overwhelm, overthinking, and the physical experience of anxiety. Anxiety counsellor Stevenage and Hertfordshire. Online anxiety counselling UK.

Depression and low mood

Depression counselling in Stevenage and online with Silvina — working gently alongside hopelessness, low motivation, and emotional difficulty. Depression counsellor Letchworth and Hertfordshire.

Trauma and abuse

Trauma counselling and abuse counselling in Stevenage and online with Silvina — working at your own pace with domestic, sexual, and psychological abuse and their lasting impact. Trauma counsellor Hertfordshire. Abuse counsellor Stevenage online.

Grief, loss and bereavement

Bereavement counselling and grief counselling in Stevenage and Letchworth and online with Silvina — supporting you through loss in all its forms. Grief counsellor Hertfordshire online.

Relationships, self-esteem and women’s issues

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Sessions with Silvina

Silvina offers face-to-face sessions in both Stevenage and Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, and online and telephone sessions to adults across the UK. Sessions are available Monday to Friday during the day and in the evenings, and on Saturday mornings. Sessions are available in English and Spanish.

Silvina works with individual clients on a private basis and also supports those referred through EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) arrangements and one-off organisational referrals. As part of Hope Therapy’s team of 90+ qualified counsellors, she is matched to clients where there is a strong therapeutic fit.

Sessions are 50 minutes. Sessions are confidential. There are limited circumstances in which this may need to change — for example, if there is a serious risk of harm to you or others. Silvina will explain these clearly before any work begins.

Location — Stevenage & Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire

Silvina works face-to-face from two locations in Hertfordshire — Stevenage (pop ~94,000), Hertfordshire’s largest town, and Letchworth Garden City (pop ~44,000), just 3.5 miles to the north. Together they sit at the centre of a well-connected area covering Hitchin, Welwyn Garden City, Hertford, Hatfield, and Luton. Online and telephone sessions are available to anyone across the UK. The following gives you a sense of how long it typically takes to travel to the Stevenage/Letchworth area.

Hitchin	10 mins
Baldock	10 mins
Welwyn Garden City	15 mins
Hatfield	20 mins
Hertford	20 mins
Luton	20 mins
Ware	20 mins
Harpenden	20 mins
Bishop’s Stortford	25 mins
St Albans	25 mins

Journey times show how long it takes to reach the Stevenage and Letchworth area by the fastest available transport. Online and telephone counselling is available to anyone across the UK, including Spanish-speaking clients anywhere in the UK.

Silvina’s practice draws local clients from across Hertfordshire — particularly Hitchin, Welwyn Garden City, and Luton — and from anywhere in the UK for her bilingual English/Spanish counselling, financial abuse recovery support, and cultural transition counselling online.

Fees

Individual sessions: £65 per session

Counselling in Stevenage and Letchworth with Hope Therapy starts from £65 — significantly more accessible than many comparable private practices in Hertfordshire.

Book a Free Consultation

Whether you are looking for integrative counselling in Stevenage or Letchworth, bilingual counselling in English or Spanish, financial abuse recovery support, or online counselling from anywhere in the UK, a free 15-minute consultation is a good place to start. There is no commitment and no pressure.

Hope Therapy’s team is also available by phone 24 hours a day if you would prefer to speak to someone before booking.

Book your free consultation: https://calendly.com/hopetherapy/15-minute-consultation

More Info

Qualifications	Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling — CPCAB (⚠ VERIFY: institution and year)
Professional membership	Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) Accredited Registrant — National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (MNCPS Acc.)
NCPS	Hope Therapy & Counselling Services is an Organisational Member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)
Services	Individual counselling · EAP counselling · Organisational referrals
Therapeutic approach	Integrative: Person-Centred · Psychodynamic · Trauma-informed
Session format	Face-to-face (Stevenage and Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire) · Online (Zoom, Microsoft Teams) · Telephone
Session length	50 minutes
Availability	Monday to Friday — daytime and evenings · Saturday mornings
Fee	£65 per session
Venues	Stevenage, Hertfordshire — ⚠ VERIFY: full address/postcode and accessibility Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire — ⚠ VERIFY: full address/postcode and accessibility
Languages	English · Spanish
Last reviewed	April 2026
Booking	https://calendly.com/hopetherapy/15-minute-consultation