About Emilia
Emilia Gonczar trained in psychology and has worked in mental health for more than a decade. She speaks English and Polish and draws on diverse clinical experience from hospital wards, charity work and independent practice. Emilia uses her background to help people facing stress, anxiety, low mood and parenting challenges.
She holds a Masters in Psychology from the University of Warsaw and completed four years of psychoanalytical training at The Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
How Emilia works
Her clinical history includes placements on psychiatric wards for neurotic, personality and eating disorders, an acute psychiatric ward and a children and adolescent ward, plus work with a national mental health charity. Emilia aims to help people understand themselves and their relationships. She talks with clients about how past experiences connect to present difficulties.
She pays attention to thoughts, feelings and the body, so sessions can include noticing bodily responses as well as emotions and memories. Her approach combines attachment-based thinking, client-centred care, psychodynamic perspectives and solution-focused ideas. She also uses eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing when trauma memories are a focus.
This mix lets her tailor the work to each person’s needs. People come to her for support with grief, trauma and abuse, relationship issues, parenting and family concerns, eating and body-image problems, career strain and coping with life changes. She also helps with compassion fatigue, attachment concerns and issues linked to adoption or foster care.
Emilia accepts international clients and offers sessions by video, phone, live chat and text. She writes about mind-body connections on her blog and brings that practical curiosity into sessions.
Emilia lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Emilia works with
The areas below are the ones Emilia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English, Polish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that shape online work and what they help with
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections affect current relationships and trust. It can help when people struggle with closeness, attachment issues or repeated relationship patterns. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person in the room, offering empathic listening and support to help people find their own solutions; this can suit those wanting a non-directive space to process feelings. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used when distressing memories are a focus and aims to reduce the impact of traumatic recollections.Choosing an approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and the nature of the difficulties and then agree a plan together. This collaborative process means the method can change as needs change, combining approaches when that makes sense.
Online sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions often fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, live chat can offer a shorter check-in and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and different time zones, while keeping the focus on progress and practical support.
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