Nicoleta Porojanu , BACP

Nicoleta Porojanu is a counsellor with 19 years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She brings a long history of work across clinical, voluntary and private settings. Her pathway has included roles in palliative care, management of supported living services and private practice. Nicoleta draws on lived experience of childhood trauma and serious illness to inform a compassionate way of working.

She helps people who are facing relationship strain, grief, trauma and major life changes. Sessions often focus on practical ways to cope and on understanding how past hurts shape present choices. Nicoleta pays attention to attachment, communication and patterns such as codependency or avoidant tendencies.

Her practice blends client-centred listening with tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness. She also uses ideas from existential and Jungian approaches to help people make sense of meaning, identity and recurring life themes. The overall aim is to help people notice patterns, try new behaviours and find more ease in day-to-day life.

Nicoleta has worked in palliative settings and in residential services, and she brings that breadth of experience into conversations about chronic illness, caregiving and bereavement. She also supports people dealing with body image, cancer, chronic pain and the stresses of caring for others.

She hosts the Open To Happiness podcast and founded the mental health charity The Significant You. Nicoleta describes these projects as ways to share learning and support wider wellbeing outside the therapy room.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Client-centred therapy focuses on listening with empathy and on helping people feel understood. This approach is useful when someone needs a calm space to talk through feelings and to build self-awareness and confidence.

Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together. It offers practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful patterns and to manage anxiety, low mood or relationship difficulties.

Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment through simple practices. It can help reduce rumination and increase calm when life feels overwhelming.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what feels most useful based on their needs, goals and preferences. That means adapting sessions over time and trying different tools until something fits.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can suit shorter check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while keeping continuity of support.