About Emilia
Emilia Gonczar is a counsellor with eleven years of experience. She works in English and Polish and combines talk-based work with attention to the body. Emilia uses this blend to help people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, grief or relationship strain.
She took a Masters in Psychology at the University of Warsaw and then completed a four-year psychoanalytical training at The Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Emilia has worked in a range of settings, including psychiatric wards and mental health charities, as well as in independent practice.
Background and approach
Her BACP registration is listed as BACP. Emilia pays attention to how past events shape present life. Sessions look at thoughts, feelings and patterns in relationships.
She also notices how the body holds tension and uses somatic ideas to help people notice physical signals. Her approach draws on attachment-based and client-centred ways of working, psychodynamic thinking, EMDR and somatic therapy. That mix lets Emilia tailor work to things like parenting stress, trauma and issues around identity or self-worth.
She aims to make things clearer and more manageable, step by step. Practical concerns such as work, caregiving and life transitions are welcomed in sessions. Emilia also supports people coping with adoption and foster care matters, ageing concerns, body image and grief.
She writes about mind-body links on her blog.
How somatic and relational approaches work online
Somatic Therapy focuses on the body's role in emotional experience and helps people notice bodily signals linked to stress or trauma. It can be useful for anxiety, trauma responses and tension held in the body.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions. It helps people understand relationship struggles, attachment worries and intimacy-related issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together decide which methods fit best. This collaborative process means techniques can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. These formats let people work around busy schedules, caregiving duties or geographical distance while keeping continuity of care. Registered or accredited professionals adapt exercises and grounding techniques so they work over video or phone, and messaging can help keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Polish