Aldona Olchanowska
Practical, person-centred counselling for life changes
About Aldona
Aldona Olchanowska offers warm, straightforward support for people facing relationship strain, grief, low mood, anxiety and life changes. She works in English and Polish and brings two decades of counselling experience to each conversation. Aldona aims to make sessions practical and easy to follow for someone juggling family life, work and everyday stress.
Aldona draws on client-centred ways of working to help people feel heard and understood. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change.
Background and approach
Systemic ideas inform how she looks at family and relationship patterns so people can see how interactions shape problems. Her background includes study and practice in Poland and the United States before practising in the United Kingdom. She holds a Bachelor-level education in special education and a Master of Education in counselling and guidance.
Aldona is a BACP member, which reflects her adherence to a professional ethical framework. In sessions she tends to use clear questions, reflective listening and goal-focused conversations. Conversations may cover parenting pressures, communication problems, eating and sleeping difficulties, trauma, addiction, neurodiversity-related concerns and caregiver stress.
She explains options and helps people try small changes between meetings. Aldona is affirmative of LGBT identities and treats people of all ages and backgrounds with respect. Many clients appreciate her calm manner and practical focus when life feels overwhelming.
To begin, people choose a session format that fits their routine and pace.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that shape online sessions
Aldona uses client-centred therapy to place the person and their experience at the heart of each session. This approach means the counsellor listens carefully, reflects back what she hears and helps people make sense of their feelings at their own pace.She also uses motivational interviewing when change feels difficult. That method focuses on discovering a person’s own reasons for change and building small, workable steps rather than imposing goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Aldona will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs in early sessions and adapt her methods as the work progresses. The choice of approach is collaborative and may shift as issues evolve.
Online sessions can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Text and live chat allow for flexible, written exchanges during busy days. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Polish
