About Petronela
Petronela Antemia is a counsellor who supports people dealing with stress and anxiety. She also helps with relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem and depression. Her approach is practical and respectful, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable for anyone worried about change.
Petronela works with people to build a clear plan for therapy. She listens first and adapts conversations to suit each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions are focused on understanding what causes distress and on simple ways to reduce it day to day. She uses methods that encourage personal choice and practical problem solving. That can mean looking at unhelpful thinking, finding realistic steps for change, or exploring values and meaning when someone feels stuck.
The work is collaborative; the person sets goals and Petronela helps map how to reach them. Over seven years she has supported people through grief, parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, intimacy difficulties and life transitions. She also addresses issues such as attachment and abandonment, communication problems and challenges linked to autism and ADHD.
Petronela is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged to suit different schedules and circumstances. Her style is warm, patient and solution-focused, aimed at helping people regain confidence and move forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy emphasises listening and asking open questions so people feel understood. It helps when someone needs space to make sense of emotions, to build self-trust and to set personal goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical exercises. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and for changing unhelpful thinking patterns through step-by-step work.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversations; phone sessions suit people with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection between sessions and easier fitting into a busy day. Registered or accredited professionals use these formats to make therapy more accessible and to match different practical needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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