Monika Zajac
Empathic counsellor with teaching background
About Monika
Monika Zajac trained in counselling after moving from Poland to the United Kingdom. She holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and brings nine years of professional experience. Monika speaks English and Polish and has experience supporting people through a wide range of concerns.
Her background includes many years working as a high school teacher in Poland before retraining as a counsellor in the UK. That teaching experience still shapes how she listens and explains things now.
Background and approach
Monika has worked with both young people and adults and has additional post-qualifying training related to adoption and special guardianship. In sessions she draws mainly on client-centred and psychodynamic approaches. She aims to create a calm space where people can speak about what matters to them.
Conversations are paced to each persons needs, with gentle reflection and practical suggestions when helpful. Monika helps with common problems such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief and life changes. She also works with relationship and parenting concerns, identity issues and challenges linked to chronic illness, ADHD, trauma and compulsive behaviours.
Her experience includes immigration-related stress and end-of-life family matters. People often come for help with low self-esteem, anger, career decisions or compassion fatigue. Sessions can include exploring past patterns, making sense of difficult feelings, and trying new ways of coping.
Monika aims to support each person to find clearer direction and steadier day-to-day routines.
What Monika works with
How Monika works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches work in online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement, following what the person brings and helping them find their own solutions. It suits people who need a steady, accepting space to talk about anxiety, grief, self-esteem or life changes.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past experiences shape current feelings and patterns. It can help when recurring relationship problems, identity issues or long-standing emotional difficulties are getting in the way of daily life.
Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Monika will work collaboratively to agree what feels helpful, adapting methods over time based on your goals and what makes the most difference in sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets you see visual cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, study or family routines and to keep continuity when travel or location change is a factor.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Polish
