About Ranka
Ranka Smith is a counsellor with 26 years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and helps people cope with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addiction, and life transitions.
Ranka aims to make conversations straightforward and non-judgemental. She creates space for people to talk about what matters most to them. Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and small steps to get there.
How Ranka works
Her background includes long practice working with trauma, attachment issues and compassion fatigue. She draws on a mix of approaches to match what an individual needs, including cognitive methods and emotion-focused work. Mindfulness techniques are used to help with coping and grounding.
In practical terms Ranka works with concerns such as eating and sleeping problems, anger, bipolar mood issues, ADHD and addiction. She also attends to family of origin matters, immigration-related stress and end-of-life and hospice concerns. Expect straightforward discussion and practical strategies alongside emotional processing.
Ranka speaks English, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. International clients are accepted and sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to availability.
Ranka lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Ranka works with
The areas below are the ones Ranka 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships affect current patterns. It helps people understand attachment styles and how these shape connections and trust in close relationships. Client-centred therapy puts the person at the heart of sessions by offering empathic listening and supporting the client's own decisions about change. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to manage anxiety, low mood and unhelpful routines.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and past experiences to decide together what feels most helpful. Sessions can adjust over time as needs change, with collaborative review at regular points.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are useful. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing between sessions or want brief, on-the-go support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel, while letting the therapist use the chosen approaches to address emotional patterns and practical problems.
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