Joanna Klekotko
Experienced counsellor helping people find clearer ways forward
About Joanna
Joanna Klekotko is a counsellor with 15 years' experience helping adults with a wide range of struggles. She speaks English and Polish and sees people in the United Kingdom as well as international clients. Joanna aims to create a calm, practical space where people can talk about what is hardest for them and find clearer ways forward.
Her work is tailored to each person's needs. She listens first, then helps set simple goals to reduce distress.
Background and approach
Sessions can focus on managing anxiety, low mood, relationship strain, addiction patterns or problems with sleep and eating. Joanna also supports people coping with grief, life changes and career strain. Joanna draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioural techniques and person-centred listening to help people notice thoughts, feelings and choices.
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns that repeat in close relationships. This mix gives practical tools and a steady focus on what matters most to the client. At the first session Joanna asks about the main problems and what the person hopes to achieve.
Together they agree ways to work and the likely length of therapy. She offers both short-term counselling and longer open-ended psychotherapy depending on individual needs. People who come to Joanna can expect a collaborative way of working.
She encourages people to connect with their values and strengths and to build coping strategies that fit their daily life. Her aim is to help people make change that feels doable and meaningful.
What Joanna works with
How Joanna works
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Sessions & fees
How Joanna's approaches work online
Joanna uses cognitive behavioural therapy and a person-centred approach to help people make practical changes and feel heard. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and gives step-by-step strategies for reducing worry, low mood and unhelpful habits. The person-centred approach focuses on listening, validation and helping a person find their own solutions, which can help with self-esteem, grief and relationship issues.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Joanna will discuss goals, preferences and what feels helpful, then try methods together to see what fits best. That collaborative checking-in means therapy can be adjusted as needs change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for deeper, face-to-face conversations; phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit ongoing support between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access help from different locations.
| 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Polish
