About Irina
Irina Florea is a counsellor who supports people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship difficulties. She works with grief, trauma, addiction concerns, sleep problems and career or life-change stress. Irina is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Sessions are offered in English and Romanian. Irina uses a warm, clear and collaborative style. She listens for patterns that leave someone feeling overwhelmed or “never enough.”
Background and approach
Together with the client she looks at what shaped those patterns and builds small, practical steps to create steadiness and confidence again. The work can be short term for focused goals or longer term for deeper change. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas and psychodynamic thinking to look at early relationship influences and repeating cycles.
Client-centred methods make space for the client’s perspective, and existential questions help when people face big life changes or questions of meaning. Therapy may include gentle body awareness, grounding and mindfulness tools to support regulation. Irina has four years of clinical experience.
She has supported people dealing with family of origin issues, abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency, communication problems and commitment worries. Other focus areas include eating and body image issues, cancer-related distress and coping after separation. Sessions can take place online by video or phone, or through live chat and text messaging.
The work aims to be inclusive and LGBTQ+ affirming, and to acknowledge cultural transitions and the stresses of living between places and roles.
How Irina’s approaches translate to online work
Irina often uses attachment-based ideas to notice how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. This approach helps when someone feels disconnected or repeats unhelpful patterns in close relationships, and it can be explored effectively in conversation or written work during sessions.She also works in a client-centred way, which means the focus stays on the person’s experience and pace. That approach suits people who need a steady, accepting space to talk things through and to set their own goals. Psychodynamic ideas are used to gently link current problems with past experiences, helping clients understand why certain reactions keep returning.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Irina treats this as a collaborative process and will help clients try different ways of working based on their needs, goals and preferences. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging can fit around busy schedules. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into work, family life and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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