About Joanna
Joanna Klekotko is a counsellor with 15 years of experience who helps adults manage anxiety, stress, low mood and relationship strain. She works in the United Kingdom and supports people with a wide range of concerns, including self-esteem, grief, addiction and coping with life changes. Joanna offers sessions in English and Polish and sees international clients online.
Joanna uses a blend of approaches to tailor work to each person. She draws on somatic ideas to help people notice how emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centred techniques to clarify values and build practical coping skills. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tools are used where thoughts and behaviours are getting in the way. Her practice focuses on helping clients make changes that fit their daily lives.
Early sessions look at the problems that cause the most distress, and set clear goals for therapy. Joanna adapts the pace and tools depending on what each person needs and prefers. Sessions can be short-term or open-ended, decided together based on the issue and progress.
She aims to help people increase emotional resilience and find strategies for transitions like separation, bereavement or career change. Joanna describes her role as a companion in the therapeutic process. She encourages clients to connect with their emotions, needs and values so they can move toward a more satisfying life.
How Joanna uses different approaches online
Joanna combines somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed approaches to respond to the issues people bring. Somatic work helps people notice bodily signals and patterns that relate to stress and anxiety, giving simple ways to regulate in the moment. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and building small actions that reflect those values, which can help with depression, anxiety and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current interactions and emotional responses, useful for relationship strain and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Joanna works with each person to test what helps most, adjusting methods based on goals, preferences and how someone responds. This collaborative stance means the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes therapy easier to fit around work and family life. These options give flexibility for people who travel, live abroad or prefer not to meet in person, while still allowing practical exercises, conversation and body-aware techniques to be practised together.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Polish