Livia Maria Nestianu, BACP

BACP counsellor Livia Maria Nestianu has five years' experience working with adults in the United Kingdom. She offers help for a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship and family matters, grief, addiction and issues around identity such as LGBT concerns. She also lists work on mood disorders, ADHD, eating and intimacy-related challenges.

Livia trained first in psychology and now works in an integrative way. She blends approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Sessions are described as opportunities to talk openly about difficulties and to work through practical ways to cope.

In practice she helps people name what is causing overwhelm and choose steps to manage it. That can mean learning new thinking habits with CBT, examining early relationship patterns with attachment work, or practising acceptance and values-based action with ACT. She also draws on somatic ideas to notice how emotion shows up in the body.

People may come wanting support with parenting stress, blended family problems, communication breakdowns or caregiver strain. Livia lists additional focuses such as abandonment, body image, chronic illness and co-morbidity that inform her approach to these concerns.

Sessions aim to be straightforward and conversational. Clients can expect a mix of talking, practical tools and reflective noticing to help them cope with day-to-day pressures and make decisions about next steps.

How Livia uses different approaches in online work