Iwona Dreksler
Compassionate counsellor for stress and life change
About Iwona
Iwona Dreksler uses a warm, person-centred style that helps people feel heard from the first session. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where adults and adolescents can talk about what matters to them and begin to make changes. Iwona holds an Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
She has six years of experience working across independent practice and third-sector settings.
Background and approach
Her work as a bereavement counsellor and a mental health support worker has added to her practical understanding of loss, trauma, and complicated emotional responses. People come to Iwona with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, sleep and eating problems, and ADHD.
She also supports matters such as abandonment, attachment issues, body image, codependency and communication problems. Her approach blends attachment-based thinking, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness and solution-focused ideas. She aims to match tools to what each person needs and keeps sessions straightforward and goal-focused when helpful.
Sessions are offered in English and Polish and she is available to work with clients internationally. Iwona offers a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different routines and preferences. Therapy is arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
What Iwona works with
How Iwona works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Iwona often draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships affect current feelings. This approach focuses on patterns in relationships and can help with trust, connection and emotional reactivity.She also uses client-centred therapy, which prioritises listening and reflecting so the person leads the pace and topics. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) appears in sessions when people want practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, such as with anxiety, sleep or eating problems.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful, try different tools, and adapt methods to fit each person's needs, goals and preferences. This keeps work collaborative and flexible.
Online formats allow the same therapeutic approaches to be used in ways that fit daily life. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversational experience. Phone sessions can be better when a shorter check-in is needed or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to have frequent, shorter contacts and to fit therapy around work or family routines. These options help make therapy more accessible without sacrificing the core therapeutic work.
| 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
- Family conflicts
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
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Polish
