Questions and answers

No. They are unrelated. Speech therapy addresses speech disorders. In logotherapy, ‘logo’ comes from the Greek logos in the sense of meaning. The similarity between the Bulgarian terms is coincidental and is the most common misunderstanding here.

No to both. The method was developed by a doctor and works equally well with people of strong faith and those who identify as atheists. A therapist has no right to impose a worldview.

No. Logotherapy does not claim that everything happens for the best or ask anyone to look on the bright side. It starts precisely where positive thinking turns away — with pain, guilt and death.

No. Coaching sets goals and supports progress towards them. Logotherapy addresses the question of why there should be a goal at all.

No. And if someone promises you that, do not go to them. In logotherapy, conscience is understood as the organ of meaning — the ability to sense what is right in a particular situation before you can explain why. It can be mistaken, but it is yours. My work is to clear the path to your answer, not give you mine.

Logotherapy has its own established methods, including paradoxical intention for fears and obsessive states, dereflection for excessive self-observation, Socratic dialogue and work on attitude. The choice depends on your situation and will be explained before we use it.

Logotherapy is one of the existential psychotherapies and has its own research tradition, including tools for measuring the experience of meaning. Its strength lies where other methods often fall silent — irreversible loss, incurable illness, guilt and death.

Severe depression, psychotic states, bipolar disorder, acute addiction and eating disorders require treatment by a psychiatrist first or alongside therapy. Frankl, himself a neurologist and psychiatrist, insisted on precisely this: where there is a physical or psychological cause, it must receive medical treatment. If I judge at our first meeting that you need another kind of help, I will tell you and make a referral.

The first meeting is about understanding your situation. You explain what brings you; I ask questions. By the end, you will have an idea of what I offer, how much time I think may be needed and whether I am the right person for you. If I am not, I will tell you and refer you elsewhere.

The first meeting does not commit you to anything. It is perfectly normal to come once and decide you need time to think.

A session lasts around 50 minutes, usually once a week or, less often, once a fortnight.

There is no couch and no silent waiting. The work is a conversation — sometimes difficult, sometimes humorous, often with specific tasks between meetings. I do not give advice or tell you how to live. I ask questions you have not asked yourself — they lead to awareness and to finding new solutions.

It depends on the issue. Crisis work may take a few meetings. Work on a prolonged lack of direction or a significant loss usually takes 6 to 8 meetings. Logotherapy is not designed as a long-term approach; it aims to reach an ending, not to keep you in therapy.

Every 3–5 meetings, we pause and review whether what we are doing is leading somewhere.

Yes. I work both in person and online.

Write to me or call — the phone number and email address are on the Contact page. We will arrange the first meeting, either at 115 Pirotska Street in Sofia or online.

Everything said in the consulting room stays there. I do not tell anyone — including the person who referred you — either that you attend or what we have discussed. Exceptions to confidentiality are:

• An immediate danger to your life or someone else’s;
• Evidence of abuse or a threat involving a child;
• An explicit court order;
• Your explicit written consent — for example, if you ask me to prepare a summary for another professional.

If I need to discuss your case in supervision as part of my professional practice, I will ask for your consent beforehand. Even then, it is discussed anonymously, without revealing your name, personal data or identifying details to the supervisor.

I understand the question. A conversation will not change the fact itself — logotherapy does not pretend it can bring back what has been lost or undo what has happened.

But that fact, however painful, is not the whole of your life. You still have a choice about how to live with the pain — whether it will overwhelm everything within you, or whether you can find a way to carry it with dignity without letting it become the only thing that defines you. Sometimes the difference lies in precisely this inner support, so difficult to find yet capable of sustaining us.

The method may not have been right for you; the practitioner may not have been either. Tell me what did not work — that is useful information, not a failure.

You do not have to. Logotherapy does not deny the past, but it does not focus primarily on it.