About Joanna
Joanna Bienkowska is a counsellor who helps people facing anxiety and stress. She aims to create a calm space where people can talk about what feels hard and start to make changes. Joanna speaks English and Polish and works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Joanna uses simple, practical steps to help people manage difficult thoughts and feelings. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to break problems into smaller parts and try different strategies.
Background and approach
This approach is useful for worry, low mood, sleep problems and addictive patterns. Her work is collaborative. Joanna listens first, then together with each person she shapes a plan that fits their life and goals.
Sessions focus on clear, achievable steps rather than only talking about the past. Joanna has three years of professional experience including placements in the UK. She holds BACP, which indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
That background informs a focused, respectful way of working. People often come with concerns about relationships, grief, anger, self-esteem or coping with life changes. Joanna also supports clients dealing with attachment and abandonment issues, body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness, eating concerns and career worries.
She aims to help people build practical coping skills and notice steady progress.
How CBT and online sessions work together
Joanna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a practical method that helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviours. CBT often focuses on short, structured tasks and exercises that can be practised between sessions to ease anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and many stress-related issues.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Joanna will work with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and daily life. This is a collaborative process where plans are adjusted as progress is made and new challenges appear.
Online therapy gives flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual contact helps the work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, written exercises and people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy routine and to continue work across different situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Polish
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