Iliana Stoyanova — Neurodivergent Affirmative ADHD Therapist, London

Soul Bridges Therapy is the counselling practice of Iliana Stoyanova, a BACP-registered psychotherapeutic counsellor offering neurodivergent affirmative therapy for adults in London and online across the UK and internationally. She works with individuals and couples moving toward change and authenticity, making sense of the patterns beneath the surface and working through what feels stuck — with a relational, integrative approach that meets people where they are, with warmth, curiosity, and no requirement to arrive with labels.

ADHD and neurodivergence are central to her work. Her ND affirmative therapy supports adults with ADHD, AuDHD and related experiences — burnout, masking, emotional regulation, overwhelm, rejection sensitivity, executive functioning, perfectionism, and the shame and low self-esteem that can accumulate from years of navigating environments not built for different ways of thinking. She works with people before or after diagnosis, while waiting for an assessment, questioning, self-identifying, or choosing not to pursue a diagnosis at all; where useful she can also help clients understand and navigate the UK diagnostic system. Her practice is explicitly grounded in the understanding that neurological difference is part of human diversity rather than something to be fixed, drawing on a social-model rather than deficit-model lens.

What defines her neurodivergent affirmative approach is that therapy adapts to the client rather than the reverse: adjusting the pace and structure of sessions, allowing different ways of communicating, using practical tools where helpful, and taking distress seriously without treating neurodivergence itself as the problem. Alongside her ND-focused work she offers integrative counselling for anxiety, depression, burnout, relationships and work-related stress, and couples therapy including for partners where ADHD is part of the relationship dynamic. Sessions run face-to-face across Central and South East London — London Bridge, Forest Hill, Sydenham, East Dulwich, Brockley — and online, with a free 15–20 minute consultation available.