Emilia Gonczar, BACP

Emilia Gonczar is a BACP counsellor with 11 years of experience. She offers therapy in English and Polish and brings a background in psychology and long-term psychoanalytic training to her work.

She trained at the University of Warsaw and completed a four-year psychoanalytical programme at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Emilia has practical experience from psychiatric wards and charity work, and she has also worked in private practice.

Her style is thoughtful and curious. She helps people untangle difficult thoughts and emotions and notices how past experiences connect to current patterns. She also pays attention to bodily experiences when they matter to emotional work.

Emilia works collaboratively. Sessions focus on understanding relationships, recurring conflicts, fears and desires. She will help a person name what feels stuck and try out ways of working that fit their everyday life.

Common areas she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and issues around parenting and family. She also supports people coping with identity and body image concerns, caregiving strain, adoption and blended family questions, and relationship or intimacy-related worries.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, psychodynamic thinking, client-centred conversation, solution-focused tools and EMDR when appropriate. Emilia shares resources and reflections through her blog to help people continue learning between sessions.

How her approaches work online and what to expect

Emilia uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns; this approach can help when someone wants to understand recurring conflicts or closeness and trust issues. Client-centred work means sessions focus on the person's experience, with the therapist listening, reflecting and following the client's pace to build understanding. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used to process distressing memories by working with the way the mind holds them and can be helpful for trauma-related symptoms and emotional reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Emilia will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest ways of working together. That discussion is collaborative and may combine approaches as needs become clearer.

Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face connection and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, reflection between sessions or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on the therapeutic work itself.