Olga Chernyavska
Helping you to live a healthier and happier life
Holistic therapy with a focus on mind-body interconnection for people struggling with anxiety and worries.
Olga Chernyavska
Helping you to live healthier and happier life
Holistic therapy with a focus on mind-body interconnection for dedicated professionals struggling with anxiety and worries.
Individual online / virtual, and confidential psychological
support for hoarding and cluttering difficulties.
Hoarding disorder is a mental health condition with a strong link to stress and anxiety. Hoarding is characterized by an ongoing need to accumulate a lot of items and chronic distress associated with disposal of unneeded possessions. This gets in the way of how you want to live your life.
Some individuals do not recognize that their hoarding behaviour is problematic, and others are not ready to start decluttering.
Hoarding and anxiety
You might belong to another group in the middle:
➤ You accept that you have a problem with hoarding or clutter.
➤ You are yet to be ready to start decluttering.
➤ You are now ready to start receiving psychological virtual/online support with tiding up (for example, to engage with essential visits) or considering a possibility of taking further steps to address your hoarding or clutter.
It’s normal for you to feel stressed, anxious, or uncomfortable when seeking help and working through your difficulties.
I can reassure you that I have seen many cluttered and untidy homes in my professional life. I’ll work with your current levels of acceptance of yourself/your difficulties, strengths, understanding and abilities
My support could be suitable for you if you feel overwhelmed, so:
You procrastinate and struggle to build structure to move forward
Have difficulties to focus and make your home safe for visits
Unable to decide where to start tidying up in your home
Have no clarity about actions required, regarding your difficulties
Can not prioritise what to do next
Our work together can include the following options:
✔ Setting boundaries for your comfort and safety, so we don’t talk about what you are not ready for.
✔ Having discussions about the immediate worries you might have, such as safety concerns, essential visits, and/or relationship difficulties.
✔ Starting conversations about possible future support to begin addressing your clutter/hoarding difficulties.
✔ Practical tidying up is being done by you whilst talking to me. My virtual/online support could ease your anxiety, feelings of being overwhelmed, and negative thoughts (regarding clutter and hoarding) whilst you might need to prepare your property for important visits (for example, from professionals or your family).
Essential criteria for us to start working together:
Your home is clean and has no infestation.
You have mental capacity to make decisions independently.
You understand that if your hoarding puts yourself or others at risk, the confidentiality might be broken in line with a law
You are able to self-refer independently
The difference between clutter and hoarding.
The main difference is in the risks. It is likely that you have a hoarding difficulty if you
Do not have clear pathways in all the rooms (including bathroom, toilet and kitchen) of your home.
Are unable to access and use all the rooms (including bathroom, toilet and kitchen) as they are intended