Ioana Mitrache
Compassionate counsellor for life changes
About Ioana
Ioana Mitrache is a counsellor with eight years of clinical experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and a wide range of life difficulties. Ioana speaks English and Romanian and accepts international clients.
Ioana uses a relational style that focuses on how past and present connections affect day-to-day life. She aims to help people notice repeating patterns and make small changes that feel manageable.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and focused on what the person wants to change. Her background includes work with addiction, trauma and grief, and she supports people dealing with self-esteem, intimacy and relationship challenges. Ioana also addresses issues such as eating and sleeping problems, career pressures, compassion fatigue and the effects of caregiving.
The counsellor draws on several therapeutic approaches to suit different needs. These include Attachment-Based work to look at connection styles, Client-Centred ways of following what the person brings, and Cognitive Behavioural techniques for practical coping skills. Ioana describes therapy as a collaborative process.
She listens with curiosity and offers clear tools and steps. People can expect a steady, respectful pace and help to build more stable routines and ways of relating. Background and approach: She has additional focus areas that cover adoption and foster care, body image, autism and neurodiversity concerns, blended family issues, and sexuality-related matters including kink and alternative cultures.
Her practice also attends to long-term conditions such as cancer-related distress and ageing concerns. Over time Ioana combines conversational work with targeted strategies so clients leave with both insight and practical skills. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and booking a time that suits them. Therapy subscriptions can be cancelled at any time.
What Ioana works with
How Ioana works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behaviour. It helps people understand connection patterns and improve how they relate to others. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on following the person’s concerns and pacing the work around their needs; it aims to help someone feel heard and make their own choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, teaches clear strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and is useful for anxiety, depression and practical coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person’s goals and preferences. That might mean using one approach mainly or combining methods over time based on how things are progressing.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer to write, want brief check-ins or need support that does not require video. Together these options make it easier to schedule regular work and maintain momentum between sessions.
| 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
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-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour 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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Romanian
