About Joanna
Joanna Klekotko helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression, addiction issues and life transitions. Joanna speaks English and Polish and brings 15 years of experience to each session.
Joanna uses a blend of proven approaches and adapts them to what each person needs. She listens closely to what matters to the client and focuses on practical steps as well as emotional understanding.
How Joanna works
Early sessions look at the main problems, goals and ways of working together so people know what to expect. Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and client-centred work, among other methods. This means attention to thoughts and behaviour, as well as values and emotional connection.
Joanna aims to help people notice what gets in the way and then build small, workable changes. She also offers support around attachment-related concerns, grief, trauma and issues linked to adoption and foster care. Joanna helps people develop strategies for coping, improving communication and strengthening emotional resilience during life changes.
Sessions can be short-term or open-ended depending on individual needs. Joanna favours a collaborative style where the person’s own values and goals guide the work. Her focus is on helping people find clearer direction and feel more able to manage day-to-day challenges.
Joanna lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Joanna works with
The areas below are the ones Joanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English, Polish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can try online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps towards those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts or feelings. It can help when anxiety, low mood or life transitions make moving forward hard.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression and stress management.
Client-centred therapy centres on empathetic listening and the client's own pace and goals, helping people feel heard and better able to connect with their emotions and choices.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy itself. Joanna will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person's goals, preferences and the issues they bring. Sessions can mix approaches and change over time as needs shift.
Online sessions give flexibility in how people meet a therapist. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit people who prefer written communication or need more frequent brief contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and to access support from different locations.
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