About Iwona
Iwona Dreksler offers a compassionate, person-focused counselling approach that helps people talk through difficult emotions and find practical ways forward. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where adults and adolescents can explore anxiety, grief, depression, relationship issues, and other concerns at their own pace.
Iwona holds an Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has six years of experience in both independent practice and charity settings, and she also works as a mental health support worker.
How Iwona works
Her day-to-day work has included bereavement support and helping people manage stress, burnout, trauma and post-traumatic stress, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She has supported children and young people in schools, which has influenced how she understands the impact of early experiences on later emotional health.
Iwona draws on several evidence-informed approaches, including attachment-based and client-centred ways of working, cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness, and solution-focused tools. She adapts these methods to the person sitting in front of her, using straightforward strategies and practical steps where helpful. Sessions are offered in English and Polish, and she accepts international clients.
Iwona works online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, and she can also help with coaching-style goals such as managing anger, improving sleep, or building self-esteem. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to pair a person with a therapist, then sessions are scheduled according to availability.
Payment is by subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
Iwona lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Iwona works with
The areas below are the ones Iwona selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Polish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Iwona's approaches work online
Iwona uses attachment-based and client-centred ways of working alongside cognitive behavioural techniques to help people online. Attachment-based methods focus on how early relationships shape feelings and responses, which can be useful for tackling trust, intimacy, and long-standing relational patterns. Client-centred counselling puts the person’s experience at the heart of the session, offering empathic listening and gentle reflection to help someone make sense of their feelings.CBT, or cognitive behavioural therapy, offers practical tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and try out new behaviours; it is often used for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and coping with life changes. Together these approaches allow Iwona to blend exploration with concrete steps, and she will work with each person to choose what feels most helpful and realistic for their situation.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Video calls are close to an in-person session and allow visual connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit easily into a work break. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer shorter check-ins or written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel, and help maintain continuity when circumstances change.
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