Blanka Siejek
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About me
I’m Blanka, a BACP-registered integrative counsellor. I see adults one-to-one, in person in Brighton and Hove and online across the UK. My main areas are trauma (including complex trauma), adult neurodivergence, and recovery after addiction, and I’m especially interested in how these often overlap.
My approach is relational. I bring person-centred warmth and psychodynamic curiosity to help you understand the patterns that keep repeating, and I add practical tools, such as skills for managing distress or overwhelm, when they’re useful. I shape that mix around you.
If you’re neurodivergent, whether diagnosed late, self-identified, or still wondering, therapy can be a place where you don’t have to mask, and where we can look at burnout, sensory overload, and who you are beyond the strategies that got you through.
For trauma, I’m trained in the Rewind Technique, a structured method that doesn’t require you to retell what happened in detail. We go at a pace that feels safe, and you never have to share more than you want to.
If you’re in recovery, my focus is the stage after stopping: relapse prevention, steadying your recovery, and rebuilding a life and relationships that feel truly yours.
I also work with worry and overthinking, low self-esteem, boundaries, relationship patterns, and big life transitions, including career change. I came to counselling after years in corporate marketing and senior client management, so I understand pressure and burnout from the inside.
I offer sessions in English and Polish. Pracuję również po polsku.
If you’d like to know whether we’re a good fit, get in touch for a free 15-minute consultation.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Counselling training: Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (Integrative), awarded by CPCAB. It’s a broad clinical training across several therapeutic approaches, so I can tailor the work to each person rather than fit them to one model.
- Trauma-informed practice: Trained in the trauma-informed framework through Thrive LDN, and qualified in the Rewind Technique, a way of working with distressing memories that doesn’t require you to go over the details.
- Neurodiversity-affirming work: Certificate in working with neurodivergent adults. My understanding of ADHD also comes from lived experience, not only study.
- Addiction recovery: Hands-on experience supporting people in recovery at Kennedy Street Recovery Hub in Brighton. I’m also a Practitioner Member of Addiction Professionals.
- Ongoing training: Recent CPD includes two courses on Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, one on its clinical applications and one on its use in working with trauma.
- Neuroscience: Currently working through the HarvardX MicroBachelors programme in the fundamentals of neuroscience, which informs how I understand stress, trauma, and regulation.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Addiction Recovery
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
Free initial online session
Additional information
A free 15-minute consultation comes first, so you can ask questions before committing to anything.
Payment is by bank transfer, payment link, or PayPal, due 48 hours before your session.
Further information
Sessions: 50 minutes, usually weekly, with daytime and evening appointments available. In person in central Brighton and Hove, or online by Google Meet or Zoom.
Who I work with: Adults, one-to-one.
Free 15-minute consultation: We start with a quick phone or video call, so you can ask questions and get a feel for how I work before deciding whether to go ahead.
Your first session: We talk through what has brought you here, your history as far as you want to share it, and what you’d like from therapy. Then we settle on a regular time.
Therapy in Polish: Sesje po polsku są dostępne stacjonarnie w Brighton i Hove oraz online.
