BACP Registered Integrative Counsellor, Manchester & online
How I can help
People come to counselling for many different reasons – and often the thing that brings them isn’t quite the same as what the work ends up being about. Whatever it is you’re carrying, there is likely a way to work with it. Below are some of the areas I work with most.
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Stress & burnout
When you’ve been running on empty long enough, it stops feeling like a crisis and starts feeling like just who you are. Counselling can help you understand what’s driving it — not just the workload, but the patterns underneath — and find a way back to yourself.
Low mood & depression
Depression is not always dramatic. Sometimes it’s a quiet greyness, a disconnection, a sense of going through the motions. It is a sign that something needs attention — not a character flaw, and not something you should simply push through.
Relationships & family
Difficult relationship patterns, family dynamics that feel stuck, communication that keeps breaking down. Whether it’s a close relationship or broader family tensions, counselling can help you understand what’s happening and what, if anything, you want to change.
Life transitions
Loss, relocation, career change, bereavement, the end of a relationship, becoming a parent, retirement, getting older. Transitions — even the ones we choose — can stir up grief, confusion, and a loss of identity. This is one of the areas I care about most.
Anxiety & overwhelm
The persistent worry, the physical tension, the difficulty switching off. Anxiety is exhausting precisely because it is so relentless. There are practical tools for managing it, and there is also deeper work to be done on what is driving it. We can do both.
Trauma & the past
Trauma doesn’t always look like trauma. Sometimes it looks like overreacting, or shutting down, or finding that certain situations take you somewhere you can’t explain. The past has a way of making itself felt in the present. Careful, informed work can help.
My approach
How I work across all these areas
I use an integrative approach — drawing on whichever combination of frameworks is most useful for you at each stage of the work. There is no fixed formula.
Person-Centred Therapy
The relational foundation of every session — warmth, honesty, and genuine contact. The therapeutic relationship is often the work itself.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
A practical toolkit for understanding how thoughts, feelings, and behaviour influence each other — particularly useful for anxiety and stress.
Transactional Analysis
Helps make sense of how patterns from the past show up in the present — in relationships, in how we talk to ourselves, in the roles we find ourselves playing.
Read more about how I work – About Grazyna
Therapy in Polish
Terapia po polsku
Sessions available online, UK-wide
All of the above areas can be worked with in English or in Polish. For clients whose first language is Polish, working in Polish can make a meaningful difference — not just to comfort, but to the depth of the work itself.
If you’re not sure whether what you’re experiencing fits any of these descriptions, that’s fine. Get in touch anyway — the free 20-minute consultation is exactly the right place to start figuring that out together.
Ready to take the first step?
The free 20-minute consultation is a no-obligation conversation — a chance to ask questions and see whether working together feels right.
- Responds within 24 hours In-person or Online English or Polish