Adama Giquina
Warm, person-centred support for trauma and stress
About Adama
Adama Giquina is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship worries, trauma and anger. She is approachable and calm, and offers a space where clients can talk without feeling judged. Adama works to help people understand how past experiences affect their present feelings and behaviour.
She trained in therapeutic counselling and completed a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling in 2020. Adama is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which she joined after qualifying.
Background and approach
She also works as a sessional counsellor at Survivors in Transition, where she first completed her placement. In sessions she listens with full attention and helps clients make links between past events and current reactions. She uses grounding techniques and awareness exercises to help people come down from hyper arousal and learn simple ways to manage strong emotions.
The focus is on practical steps that can be used between sessions. Adama describes her style as warm, accepting and non-judgemental. She meets people where they are and adapts conversations to each person’s needs.
She has worked with people from varied cultural and socio-economic backgrounds and is open to differences in gender expression and sexuality. Her areas of focus include intimacy-related concerns, sexual assault and abuse, immigration and multicultural issues, and young adult challenges. Adama aims to guide people toward feeling more confident and able to make changes that matter to them.
What Adama works with
How Adama works
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Sessions & fees
How Adama’s approaches work online
Adama draws on attachment-based and trauma-focused ways of working to help people understand how past relationships and traumatic events shape their feelings today. Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect trust and closeness, and helps people notice patterns in relationships. Trauma-focused work focuses on grounding, emotion regulation and making sense of distressing memories so strong reactions feel more manageable.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to the client’s needs, discuss possible ways of working and adapt methods as therapy progresses. Together they decide what feels helpful and adjust the plan when goals or circumstances change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins and text messaging supports reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and family commitments while keeping therapy flexible and accessible.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
