Emilia Gonczar, BACP

Emilia Gonczar is a counsellor accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with 11 years of practice. She works in English and Polish and helping people with stress, anxiety, relationship and parenting concerns sits at the centre of her work.

She trained in psychology at the University of Warsaw and completed a four-year psychoanalytical training at The Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. That background includes time working on psychiatric wards and with charities, as well as private practice experience.

Emilia focuses on how past experiences shape current relationships and reactions. She talks through patterns people repeat, and how attachment and family history affect feelings about partners, children and parents. She also pays attention to bodily experience as part of how problems show up.

Her approach mixes talking therapies with more focused techniques when needed. She may use Attachment-Based ideas to look at relationship patterns, psychodynamic thinking to trace earlier influences, or solution-focused steps to try practical changes. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is also part of her toolkit for trauma-related concerns.

People come to her for a wide range of issues including grief, depression, eating and body-image concerns, caregiving stress, adoption or foster-care matters, and difficulties around commitment and intimacy. She also supports those coping with life changes such as divorce, ageing or work transitions.

Sessions can be held in English or Polish. Emilia also writes about mind-body connections on her blog for those who want to read more about how feelings and the body interact.

How Emilia uses therapeutic approaches in online sessions