About Petronela
Petronela Antemia is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship problems, trauma and other concerns. Her style is warm and respectful and she aims to create a space where people feel heard.
Petronela adapts conversations to each person's situation. She listens first, then works with the person to set practical goals. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful patterns and looking for steps that make life easier day to day.
How Petronela works
Her approach draws on client-centred ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques. That means she pays attention to how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect while staying focused on the person's own values and choices. Solution-focused tools are used to look for small changes that lead to quick relief.
Petronela has seven years of experience supporting people through grief, abuse, anger, body image worries and parenting strain among other issues. She also works with concerns linked to attachment, abandonment, autism and eating-related problems. Her BACP credential is shown as provided.
Sessions are available in English and can be arranged to suit different schedules. The first meetings are used to understand the problem and agree practical steps. People who want to explore change are invited to start with a short matching questionnaire and then book a session.
Petronela lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Petronela works with
The areas below are the ones Petronela selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own priorities. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps the person find their own solutions, which can be especially useful when life events leave someone feeling stuck.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours affect feelings. It breaks problems into manageable parts and uses practical exercises to change patterns, which adapts well to online exercises and between-session work.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and the issue at hand, then agree on approaches to try together. This collaborative process means methods can be adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat helps with short check-ins and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping focus on practical progress.
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