About Olenka
Olenka Hennessey is a BACP counsellor who welcomes people dealing with stress and anxiety. She aims to create a calm space where clients feel heard and understood. Her way of working is warm and collaborative, with an emphasis on building trust so people can talk openly about what matters to them.
Olenka focuses on helping people increase self-awareness and challenge beliefs that hold them back. She supports those facing relationship strains, low self-esteem, bereavement, trauma, and life transitions such as career changes or becoming a parent.
Background and approach
She also works with issues around sleep, eating, anger, and the strain of workplace or caregiving roles. Her practice draws on client-centred methods and mindfulness to help people notice thoughts and feelings without being overwhelmed by them. She also uses motivational interviewing to strengthen commitment to change, and solution-focused ideas to identify practical next steps.
Sessions are tailored to each person rather than following one fixed plan. Olenka has six years of experience working with a range of concerns, including ADHD-related overwhelm, intimacy and attachment issues, grief, and compassion fatigue. She believes therapy is personal, and that the right relationship makes change possible.
Her aim is to help people feel less alone while they sort through thoughts and emotions. People who choose to work with Olenka can expect a supportive, steady approach that balances empathy with practical tools. She encourages clients to find what fits them, and to build resilience so they can move forward with greater confidence.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centred work focuses on the relationship between counsellor and client, and helps people feel heard while they make sense of thoughts and feelings. It suits worries like anxiety, low self-esteem, grief and life decisions because it creates space to reflect.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple ways to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without being overwhelmed. This can help with stress, sleep problems and recurring anxious thoughts by offering short practices and ways to ground in the moment.
Motivational interviewing helps people build their own reasons for change and find small, manageable steps forward. It is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about committing to new habits or life changes.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and together you will decide which methods feel most useful. This collaborative process makes it easier to adapt techniques over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different situations. Video lets you meet face to face, phone can fit into a short break, live chat works for quick check-ins and text-based messaging lets you reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping a steady course of support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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