- Years in practice
- 6
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Polish
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Iwona
Iwona Dreksler offers a warm, supportive counselling style that puts the client's experience first. She creates a calm space where people can talk honestly about stress, parenting pressures, grief, anxiety and changes in their life. Iwona works in English and Polish and has six years' experience supporting adults and adolescents.
She holds an Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Background and approach
Alongside her personal work, Iwona provides bereavement counselling for a charity and works as a mental health support worker. This mix of roles means she brings experience with depression, trauma and PTSD, low self-esteem, burnout, relationship strains and eating or sleeping difficulties. Iwona uses a collaborative, compassionate approach rather than a one-size-fits-all model.
She adapts sessions to the person in front of her, helping them explore emotions, spot patterns and try practical steps for change. Parents often appreciate straightforward tools for coping with overwhelm and improving family routines. Her background supporting children and young people in school settings informs how she thinks about early experiences and attachment.
She also offers coaching-style guidance when someone wants focused, short-term goals alongside deeper therapeutic work. Iwona aims to help people build clarity and confidence at a pace that feels manageable. She supports those working through loss, identity concerns including LGBT issues, ADHD, and a broad range of life stressors and transitions.
What Iwona works with
Everything Iwona lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Iwona helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Iwona lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Iwona draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions; this helps when parenting, relationship or attachment issues are a focus. She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments that change how they feel and act. Mindfulness techniques are used alongside these approaches to build calm and reduce reactivity during stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Iwona collaborates with each person to set goals and decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. Sessions can be tailored to focus on short-term goals like coping skills or longer-term exploration of patterns and relationships.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls create a room-like conversation when visual connection helps. Phone sessions work well for people with limited bandwidth or when they prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for short check-ins, written reflections and more frequent contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around parenting, work and daily life while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.
Questions people ask about Iwona
What concerns does she help with?
Iwona supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, self-esteem and many related issues listed in her profile.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She works in a collaborative, compassionate way using client-centred listening and practical strategies from attachment work, CBT and solution-focused methods as needed.
What experience does she bring?
She has six years' experience, including charity bereavement counselling and work as a mental health support worker alongside independent practice.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds an Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP); she is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are offered and can international clients take part?
Sessions are offered in English and Polish, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does charging and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin a counselling arrangement?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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