About Karina
Karina Kaminski works from a person-centred approach that places the client at the heart of therapy. She uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. Karina holds NCPS and practises in the United Kingdom with three years of experience supporting people through difficult life events.
Her sessions are warm and interactive. She listens without judgment and focuses on what each person wants to achieve.
How Karina works
Conversations are shaped around goals the client brings and practical steps to reach them. Karina draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. She also uses mindfulness to help people become more aware of their moment-to-moment experience and to reduce reactivity.
Solution-focused ideas are used when quick, goal-oriented work is needed. She has worked with common issues such as bereavement, panic attacks, trauma, low self-esteem and grief. Additional areas she supports include adoption and foster care concerns, attachment difficulties, body image and caregiver stress.
Karina also addresses anger, guilt and problems tied to life transitions. Sessions mix listening with practical experiments and simple tools to try between meetings. The aim is steady progress rather than overnight change.
Karina offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Karina lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Karina works with
The areas below are the ones Karina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use in online therapy
Karina uses client-centred ways of working that focus on what the person wants to get from therapy. This approach means the counsellor listens carefully and follows the client’s lead, helping people feel heard and understood while they talk through concerns.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT involves practical exercises and small behaviour changes that help reduce anxiety, panic attacks and low mood over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and therapist decide together which methods suit their needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful when face-to-face style contact matters, while phone calls need less bandwidth and suit shorter catch-ups. Live chat and messaging can fit tighter schedules or provide a written record of discussion and homework tasks. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day life.
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