About Aldona
Aldona Olchanowska is a counsellor and psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom. She has two decades of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression and relationship struggles. She works in English and Polish and aims to give clear, practical support for the problems that feel overwhelming right now.
Aldona draws on client-centred ways of working to build a warm, respectful space. Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and move at a pace they can manage.
Background and approach
She also uses elements of motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change. Her background includes study in Poland and the United States, with qualifications in special education and counselling and guidance. She has worked in treatment and educational settings and gained experience in psychiatric hospital practice and other clinical environments.
Her membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy is part of her professional standing. Aldona supports people through many concerns including anxiety, stress, grief and loss, relationship and family difficulties, eating and sleeping problems, addiction and trauma. She also helps with issues such as low self-esteem, anger, attachment and caregiver stress.
Work can cover both immediate coping skills and longer term change. Her practice is openly LGBTQ+ affirmative and she says everyone can benefit from therapy regardless of age or background. Sessions are practical and collaborative, aimed at helping people make gradual, achievable changes in day-to-day life.
How Aldona’s Approaches Work Online
Aldona combines client-centred therapy and motivational interviewing to guide online sessions. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and helping people feel understood so they can find solutions that fit their life. Motivational interviewing involves asking questions that help a person clarify their own reasons to change and build confidence to act.She describes therapy as a collaborative process. Together the client and therapist explore which approach or mix of approaches suits the person’s goals and situation. That choice can change over time as priorities shift or progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are useful. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins, quick reflections or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving or travel and let people choose what feels most practical for their life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Polish
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