About Sylwia
Sylwia Grabowska is an AASW social worker with three years' experience working in Australia. She supports people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and those wanting to strengthen their sense of self and confidence. She also helps with relationship and parenting concerns in straightforward, practical sessions.
Sylwia focuses on creating a calm, non-judgemental space where people can speak honestly. Conversations are guided by what matters most to the client and by small, achievable steps.
How Sylwia works
She listens, reflects, and helps people try new ways of coping when old patterns become unhelpful. Her background includes work with issues linked to attachment, communication problems and blended family dynamics. She also has experience addressing substance misuse, domestic violence impacts, immigration stress and post-traumatic stress.
Those concerns are approached with careful planning and a focus on safety and pacing. Sessions draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and attachment-based ideas, with client-centred techniques and hypnotherapy where suitable. Sylwia explains options and helps people choose practical strategies that fit their life and values.
She offers work in English and Polish and uses a mix of video, phone, live chat and text messaging to suit different needs. The first step is a short matching questionnaire and a scheduled session, so people can find a way of working that fits their routine.
Sylwia lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Sylwia works with
The areas below are the ones Sylwia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English, Polish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Sylwia uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take action in line with their values. ACT combines gentle acceptance of difficult feelings with practical steps to build a more meaningful life, useful for anxiety, stress and low mood.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, which looks at patterns in close relationships and how they influence feelings of safety and connection. This approach can help with communication problems, jealousy, commitment concerns and blended family dynamics by helping people understand and change relational responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sylwia will discuss the options and help decide which methods suit a person's goals, needs and comfort level. That choice is made together and can change as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat work well for shorter check-ins or when writing helps process thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep contact between sessions if needed.
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