About Ioana
Ioana Mitrache is a counsellor with eight years of experience who helps people untangle stress, anxiety and life changes. She works with concerns such as trauma, addictions, depression and phobias, and supports people who are dealing with grief, relationship struggles or parenting strain. Ioana practises in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English and Romanian.
Her style is grounded and relational. She listens first, then suggests simple tools that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make thinking clearer and reduce intense reactions, not to rush people through their feelings. Ioana draws on attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to explore how early relationships affect current patterns. She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and dialectical skills to manage strong emotions when needed.
These approaches are mixed to match each person’s situation. People can expect a practical focus in therapy. Conversations look at current problems and small steps that build steadiness over time.
Homework or between-session exercises are offered when they help someone practise new skills. She accepts international clients and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Costs vary with location and are organised through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
How Ioana blends approaches for online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional reactions. In practice this means talking about patterns from the past and noticing how they show up today, which can help with relationship issues, abandonment wounds and attachment concerns.Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's experience and pace. The therapist offers non-judgemental listening and reflects what is said so people feel heard and can find their own solutions; this suits those who need time to explore values, identity and self-esteem.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Ioana will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and will adjust methods as needed rather than sticking to a single technique. That collaborative conversation helps shape a plan that fits the individual's needs and day-to-day life.
Online sessions can use video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for seeing non-verbal cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for shorter check-ins, and messaging suits people who prefer written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and support ongoing contact between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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