Irina Florea, BACP

Irina Florea is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with four years of practice and a BACP membership. She offers approachable, calm support for people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, addiction concerns, sleep problems and difficulties that come with big life changes. She speaks English and Romanian and aims to help people feel steadier and clearer about their next steps.

Irina uses a warm, clear and collaborative style. She listens for the story behind repeating patterns and helps clients understand how past relationships and attachment experiences shape current feelings. Work in sessions is practical and focused on small, manageable steps to change what isn’t working.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas and psychodynamic thinking to look at early influences and ongoing patterns. Client-centred techniques provide a respectful space where the client’s pace and perspective guide the process. Existential themes are used when people wrestle with meaning, purpose or identity shifts.

Sessions can include gentle body-awareness and grounding exercises, simple tools for regulation, and clearer routines to improve sleep and energy. Irina also helps people address communication problems, boundaries, codependency, and relationship-related worries by exploring how people relate to others and themselves.

She has a particular interest in issues around abandonment, attachment difficulties, family of origin concerns, eating and body image, and compassion fatigue. People who have moved between countries may find it helpful to talk through questions of belonging and identity in a way that honours both loss and growth.

How Irina’s approaches work online

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of connecting. It helps when someone notices repeating patterns in close relationships, fears of abandonment, or difficulty trusting others. Client-centred therapy gives the person a respectful, non-judgemental space to be heard and to find their own direction. This approach suits people who need a gentle, paced process that follows their priorities. Psychodynamic ideas pay attention to patterns, history and the unconscious threads that repeat across situations, helping people make sense of why certain feelings or reactions keep arising.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss different options and decide together what fits best with the client’s goals and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying tools or short experiments and then adjusting the path as needed.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations that benefit from face-to-face contact. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit counselling around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the therapeutic focus.