About me
Welcome to My Counselling Practice
🔹Trauma-informed therapy for adults navigating anxiety, grief, emotional neglect, trauma, PTSD, and dissociation.
🔹I also support women experiencing the menopausal transition, helping them navigate heightened anxiety, emotional shifts, and the resurfacing of past trauma.
🔹I’m Karolina, a trauma-informed counsellor, and I provide a calm, grounded space where you can begin to feel less overwhelmed and more emotionally steady. Therapy offers a place to understand your inner experiences and respond to them with greater clarity and self-compassion.
Through our work together, I support you in developing coping strategies that regulate anxiety, manage emotional intensity, and help you feel more grounded in daily life. By exploring how past experiences influence the present, we can make sense of emotional patterns, relationship difficulties, and internal responses that may no longer serve you. A central focus is building a sense of emotional safety. This can support clearer thinking, stronger boundaries, improved decision-making, and a deeper trust in yourself. Over time, therapy can also nurture greater self-awareness and emotional resilience — supporting you to face challenges with more stability, flexibility, and confidence.
Who I work with
I support adults who want to feel steadier within themselves and their relationships, and who are tired of simply “coping”.
Many of the people I work with experience:
- Persistent anxiety, worry or a sense of being on edge
- Grief or unresolved loss, recent or from earlier in life
- Trauma, including PTSD, dissociation, or emotional neglect
- Women experiencing the menopausal transition, navigating heightened anxiety or resurfacing trauma symptoms
- Feeling emotionally numb, disconnected, or shut down
- People-pleasing or perfectionist patterns
- The impact of controlling, critical, or emotionally unsafe relationships
- Losing touch with who they really are beneath the roles they play
- Experiences held in the body or nervous system, such as tension, hyper-alertness, or stress
You don’t need to have the right labels — just a sense that something needs care and attention.
How I work
My approach is integrative and trauma-informed, which means therapy is shaped entirely around your experiences and needs. Together, we decide what feels safe to explore, how we work with emotions and thoughts, and what pace suits you best. There is no pressure to talk about anything before you’re ready — everything is done with care, patience, and collaboration.
Depending on your needs, I draw from:
❖ Person-centred therapy, offering warmth, empathy, and respect
❖ Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), to gently explore unhelpful thought patterns
❖ Gestalt therapy, supporting emotional awareness and internal parts work
❖ Emotion-focused therapy (EFT), helping you connect with and process emotions safely
❖ Solution-focused approaches, building on your strengths and resources
I work holistically, paying attention not only to your thoughts and feelings, but also to how experiences may be held in your body and nervous system.
This means we explore physical sensations, tension, and stress responses as part of understanding anxiety, grief, trauma, PTSD, and dissociation. Therapy becomes a space to feel, release, and gradually find steadiness within yourself.
Where helpful, I may also use gentle questionnaires or reflective tools. These are not used to label or judge, but to support understanding, notice patterns, and track changes over time.
Therapy with me is not about fixing you. It’s about understanding yourself with compassion and building something steadier from within.
What therapy with me feels like
You don’t need to have all the answers, or explain everything perfectly.
You only need a space where you can simply be yourself, held without pressure or judgement.Therapy with me can be a place to finally breathe — a space where you can lower the mask, pause from performing, and feel truly seen. I offer calm, warmth, and steadiness as we explore what matters most to you.
If carrying everything alone feels exhausting, you don’t have to do it anymore. Therapy doesn’t need to begin with dramatic change; sometimes it starts with the quiet, gentle choice to show up for yourself, consistently and with care.
When you feel ready to take that step, you are very welcome to get in touch.
Location and availability
I offer sessions:
In person in central Worcester (WR1)
Online for clients across the UK
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a fully qualified Integrative Counsellor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies
Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills
Certificate in Trauma Informed Counselling
Certificate in Delivering Group Therapy
Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling
CPD
Trauma Recovery:
Child saxual abuse: Hope for healing,
Guide to PTSD,
Relational Trauma- dealing with disorganised attachment.
Working with Narcissism.
The Legacy of Narcissistic Parenting
Understanding and Working with Codependent Clients
Safety Techniques in Trauma
Practical Trauma -Informed Interventions for Therapists
I completed my training and qualification while working at a local mental health charity, where I worked with people of all ages and various needs, loss, grief, anxiety and depression, anger, trauma, sexual abuse, domestic violence, relationships, narcissistic partner, suicidal thoughts, spiritual abuse, loneliness or lack of sense in life.
I also have over a decade of professional experience supporting others in their mental health and well-being needs.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Trauma Informed Approach.
I also work therapeutically with groups.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£55.00 - £60.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Initial phone or online consultation is free of charge- 15 mins.
All sessions will last 50 mins.
Ongoing session requires paid for in advance of appointment time.
F2F in Worcester
Online sessions available.
When I work
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Further information
🔹 Once you have contacted me, I will be in touch as soon as I can. I will arrange free 15 minute telephone initial consultation with you. This will give you a chance to get a sense of my way of working and to discuss whether working together is a good next step. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about how counselling works or have additional questions about how we can work together.
🔹 I offer sessions in my private counselling room in central Worcester (WR1), a calm and comfortable space designed to provide privacy and safety. There is nearby parking and good public transport links, making it easy to access. For clients across the UK, online sessions are also available, offering flexibility and convenience.
