About Emilia
Emilia Gonczar is a counsellor who brings over 11 years of clinical experience to her work. She speaks English and Polish and trained with a four-year psychoanalytical programme at The Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy after completing a Master’s degree in Psychology at the University of Warsaw. She has worked in psychiatric wards, with charities and in independent practice.
Emilia helps people make sense of stressful feelings, anxiety, relationship difficulties and life changes.
Background and approach
She notices links between past experiences and current reactions, and she pays attention to how the body shows emotion as well as the mind. Sessions are direct and attentive, with space to slow down and name what is happening. Her approach draws on attachment-based and psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns in relationships and early life that shape how someone feels today.
She also uses client-centred techniques to focus on each person’s priorities, and practical, solution-focused steps when helpful. EMDR may be used for trauma work alongside body-focused methods. People come to Emilia for a range of concerns including parenting strain, grief, eating issues, anger and compassion fatigue.
She also supports those dealing with adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family matters and ageing-related worries. Sessions aim to be collaborative. Emilia listens, reflects back what she hears and works with clients to set clear goals.
Her focus is on helping people cope better, build understanding and make changes that fit their life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Emilia draws on attachment-based therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps when people notice recurring problems in relationships or feel stuck in familiar reactions. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to explore how past experiences and unconscious patterns influence thoughts and feelings in the present.In addition she offers client-centred work that keeps the person’s priorities at the centre of each session. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting and following what matters most to the client. Together the therapist and client decide which approach or mix of approaches best fits the issue and the goals of therapy.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets people see non-verbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when a visual connection is not needed, while live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins or written reflection. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments, and they allow continuity when travel or relocation would otherwise interrupt care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Polish
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