Olenka Hennessey
Empathic counselling to help you move forward
About Olenka
Olenka Hennessey helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem or big life changes. She uses a calm, supportive style to make it easier to talk about difficult things. Her aim is to help clients feel heard and less alone as they sort through their thoughts and emotions.
She works collaboratively and focuses on building a trusting relationship. Sessions are personalised to the individual and designed to increase self-awareness.
Background and approach
That can help challenge unhelpful beliefs and create small, manageable steps towards change. Olenka draws on client-centred work to follow what matters most to each person. She also uses mindfulness to help with emotional regulation and motivational interviewing to support change.
Solution-focused techniques are used when clients want practical, short-term tools to move forward. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns, including relationships, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, intimacy-related issues, workplace stress and compassion fatigue. She also offers support for eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, career decisions and the challenges that can come with an ADHD diagnosis.
Olenka holds BACP registration, and has six years' experience providing counselling in the United Kingdom. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are arranged from there.
What Olenka works with
How Olenka works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Olenka uses client-centred counselling to follow each person's priorities and help them feel listened to. This approach is about understanding the client's experience and shaping sessions around what matters to them.She also draws on mindfulness to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away. Mindfulness work can be useful for stress, anxiety and sleeping or eating difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work alongside the client to decide what methods suit their goals and preferences. That collaborative planning means techniques can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls work well for deeper conversations, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins and when typing feels easier than speaking.
| 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
