Emilia Gonczar
Experienced bilingual counsellor combining analytic and practical care
About Emilia
Emilia Gonczar is a counsellor with eleven years of clinical experience. She works in English and Polish and combines psychological training with long-term analytic study to support people through difficult times. Emilia aims to make sessions straightforward and focused on what matters now.
She trained in psychology and then completed a four-year psychoanalytical training at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Her background includes work in psychiatric wards, services for people affected by severe mental illness, and independent practice.
Background and approach
That mix gives her experience with complex emotional and behavioural issues. In sessions she helps people understand their thoughts, feelings and relationships. She pays attention to how earlier experiences shape current reactions.
She also notices bodily responses and how the body and mind interact during stress or trauma. Her approach brings together attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening, psychodynamic reflection, EMDR for trauma processing, and solution-focused ways to set goals. Emilia adapts methods to the person in front of her rather than following a fixed formula.
She works in a calm, direct way and supports people to try small, practical changes between appointments. People come to her for many concerns including anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting strain, trauma and abuse, grief, eating issues and low self-esteem. She also supports those coping with career change, caregiver stress, adoption and attachment questions.
Sessions are offered online and in formats that suit different needs.
What Emilia works with
How Emilia works
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Sessions & fees
How Emilia applies different approaches online
Attachment-based work focuses on the ways early relationships shape current connections and emotional patterns. Online sessions can use this approach to look at how people relate to partners, children or themselves and to try new ways of responding.Client-centred therapy is about careful listening and accepting the person in front of the therapist. It helps when someone needs to feel heard and to build confidence in their own pace and decisions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a method used to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional charge. In online EMDR sessions the therapist guides the pacing and bilateral stimulation suited to each person’s needs.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Emilia will talk through options, explain what each method involves, and agree a plan based on the client's goals and comfort. She adapts methods as therapy progresses so people get the mix that helps them most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and EMDR that needs visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit short check-ins, staying connected between sessions or fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to access therapy from different locations and schedules while keeping a steady therapeutic rhythm.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Polish
