Nicoleta Porojanu, BACP
A somatic-informed counsellor supporting healing and growth
About Nicoleta
Nicoleta Porojanu is a counsellor with 19 years of experience working across clinical, voluntary and personal settings. She draws on a wide background that includes roles in palliative care, residential and supported living mental health services, and independent practice. Nicoleta speaks English and works with people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
She often supports people facing relationship struggles, family difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, and major life changes. Her work also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment difficulties, body image concerns, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and codependency.
Background and approach
Nicoleta brings personal insight from surviving childhood trauma and serious illness to her practice. Her style is caring and direct. Sessions focus on understanding current patterns, noticing how the body and feelings show up, and practising manageable steps to feel steadier.
She blends talking and embodied work so people can connect thoughts, emotions and bodily reactions. Clients can expect a mix of reflective conversation and practical tools drawn from client-centred ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and somatic awareness. She also integrates existential and Jungian perspectives when they suit a person's needs.
The aim is to help people feel clearer, regain balance and make choices that match their values. Outside clinical work she has developed a podcast and founded a mental health charity, both of which reflect her interest in sharing learning and supporting recovery.
If someone is ready to try counselling, she asks a few initial questions to match needs and then arranges sessions that fit their life.
How therapy approaches and online sessions work together
Somatic work pays attention to bodily signals and movement. It helps people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body and learn gentle ways to regulate those sensations. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and respect; the counsellor offers empathy and a non-judgemental space so people can explore their thoughts and feelings at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then try approaches that fit the person's needs. This is a collaborative exploration rather than a fixed plan, and methods can be adapted over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible options that fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions suit people who prefer audio only, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins and reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care and to try different ways of working while staying within everyday routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English