About Ioana
Ioana Mitrache is a counsellor with eight years' experience who helps people find steadiness and clearer direction when life feels overwhelming. She works in English and Romanian and practises within the United Kingdom, supporting people through issues such as anxiety, depression and addiction. Her way of working is warm and relational.
She focuses on building understanding of how past experiences shape present responses. Sessions are guided by the person's needs and pace rather than a rigid formula.
How Ioana works
Ioana uses a mix of approaches that includes attachment-based work and client-centred listening alongside cognitive behavioural techniques and elements of dialectical practice. This blend helps people spot unhelpful patterns, learn new coping skills and make practical changes day to day. People come for a wide range of concerns from grief and relationship difficulties to eating, sleeping or career stresses.
She also helps with identity and intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue and neurodiversity-related challenges such as autism and ADHD. Her sessions involve talking through current struggles, reflecting on past patterns and trying out tools that can be used between meetings. The emphasis is on small, manageable steps so clients can build confidence and notice progress.
Ioana accepts international clients and offers flexible formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
Ioana lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Ioana works with
The areas below are the ones Ioana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Romanian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that suit remote counselling
Attachment-based work focuses on the ways early relationships shape how someone reacts to stress and intimacy. It helps people make sense of recurring patterns in relationships and develop different responses that feel safer and more connected.Client-centred therapy prioritises the person's own perspective and experience. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps people find their own solutions, which can be useful for improving self-esteem and making life choices.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try approaches collaboratively and adjust as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls mirror in-person conversation and allow visual connection. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or suit lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or to use brief, written tools while juggling a busy schedule.
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