Galina Filipkova
Registered Member, MHGI
Registration No. 188828
About me
Feeling overwhelmed and out of control, struggling with emotional pain, low self-esteem, or relationship issues? If you need support to navigate these difficulties, I can help.
Since founding the Clear Skies Practice (Tewkesbury) in 2024, I have helped many adults move forward from difficult periods in their lives. In my practice, I always endeavour to ensure that, alongside specific therapeutic work in sessions, you learn tools, skills, and knowledge to sustain good emotional health in the future and beyond therapy.
For the past three years, I have worked in a grammar school successfully supporting pupils with a wide range of emotional difficulties, including anxiety, performance anxiety, anger, panic attacks, OCD, procrastination, low mood, low self-esteem, relationships, and self-harm. In this role and my previous role as a teaching assistant at a SEND school, I have also built substantial experience in supporting neurodivergent people.
Furthermore, I have extensive experience working with both adults and young people from my past roles as a teacher, personal tutor, and social worker. I also volunteered previously with the Samaritans.
Please feel free to get in touch by email or text to request a 15-minute initial call (free of charge) so I can answer any questions you may have.
Qualifications
HG Dip P., PG. Dip. in Social Work, NCFE CASH CST L3 QTS
Professional Memberships
MHGI
Testimonials
“Galina was very professional but also very understanding and helpful to me! She asked very relevant questions and listened intently!”
“Galina is kind, patient, caring and enables you to confront your issues. I cannot ever thank her enough for setting me free of my issues and with her help and guidance, she was like a beacon. I had a rewind which was instantly successful, it was truly mind-blowing the difference it made and continues to make. I am now back to the bubbly, positive person I was with Galina's gentle guidance.”
“After my wife of 25 years died suddenly I thought I should be old enough to deal with the grief on my own. However, the long years of interdependency were too ingrained to just suddenly let go. I found myself becoming more and more introverted, I stopped interacting with friends, became inactive and depressed. It wasn’t until I started having thoughts of self-harm that I finally took notice and realised I needed help. I just didn’t want to exist without my wife any longer."
"Just before Christmas 2024 I saw a leaflet simply stating “Galina - Bereavement Therapy”. At that moment, I reached rock bottom and called Galina as a last hope… and what a good call that turned out to be!"
"Galina is quiet, calm, empathic and very, very clever. She seemed to understand my total desolation from my first visit. At first, she simply listened. I didn’t realise it at the time but she simply gave me the space to spill all the horror, grief and solitude I had felt since my wife’s death. Then, slowly and without pressure, we began to talk and she started to offer me tools to help me through. Never any judgement; never any pressure; Galina proved to be the mirror in which I faced myself."
"Happily, I have now been able to look beyond my grief; to accept and understand the value of past experience and to carry that into the future with me. I will never forget the incredibly good times that my marriage brought me and those memories will continue to nourish me and overshadow my grief."
"To Galina, my most heartfelt thanks. To you reading this, do not suffer alone. There is a path through grief but I only found mine with Galina’s help.”
