About Joanna
Joanna Klekotko is a counsellor with 15 years of experience who helps people facing anxiety, stress and relationship difficulties. She works with common concerns such as low self-esteem, depression, addiction and grief. Joanna also supports clients dealing with identity and intimacy questions and everyday strains like sleep or eating problems.
Her work is practical and person-focused. Joanna listens first, then helps people name what matters to them. She uses gentle questioning and reflective listening to connect feelings with values and goals.
Background and approach
This gives a clear starting point for change. Joanna blends several approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts.
She uses attachment-based thinking to explore patterns in relationships. Client-centred ways of working keep the sessions grounded in what the person wants. Sessions can be short-term or open-ended depending on the issue and the person’s aims.
Joanna supports people through life transitions, grief, and trauma-related concerns. She also helps with challenges linked to parenting, career and caregiver stress. Joanna offers therapy in English and Polish, and works with people in the United Kingdom as well as international clients.
Her practice uses conversational, easy-to-follow language and aims to build emotional resilience and practical coping strategies.
Practical therapy approaches and online options
Joanna commonly uses cognitive behavioural therapy and attachment-based ideas in her online work. Cognitive behavioural therapy helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try small behavioural experiments to test new ways of coping; it is useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Attachment-based approaches look at relationship patterns and early bonds to understand how people relate now; this can help with intimacy, communication issues and codependency.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Joanna discusses options in early sessions and chooses strategies based on each person’s goals, history and preferences. The process is collaborative and can combine methods as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is good for deeper therapeutic conversations and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can suit brief check-ins, ongoing support or people who prefer typed communication. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care across different locations and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- 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
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