Zuzanna Horowska , BACP

Zuzanna Horowska is a counsellor with four years of practice based in the United Kingdom. She works from a humanistic, integrative stance and offers a calm space for people to talk about what feels hard. Her style aims to make difficult feelings easier to name and understand. Zuzanna focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, self-esteem and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with abandonment and attachment concerns, cancer and caregiver stress, codependency, commitment worries and communication problems. Panic attacks, feelings of emptiness, guilt and isolation are also within her scope of work. Her approach blends psychodynamic and relational ideas with elements drawn from transactional analysis and gestalt. She pays attention to how thoughts, sensations and emotions show up in the body. Zuzanna can also use Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing when appropriate to address traumatic memories. Sessions combine talking with practical tools and occasional exercises. She may suggest simple tasks between sessions to help people practise new ways of relating and managing strong feelings. The aim is to build greater self-understanding and confidence over time. Before private practice she worked with a range of organisations supporting people affected by cancer and by drug and alcohol problems. This background informs a down-to-earth way of working that keeps everyday life in view. If someone wants to begin, they follow the site steps to match and arrange the first appointment.

How EMDR and relational work translate to online therapy

EMDR is a therapy approach that asks the client to recall distressing memories while guided through specific bilateral stimulation. It is used to help reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and the emotional charge attached to them. This can be adapted to remote sessions so the client and therapist can address past trauma without meeting in person.

Relational and humanistic work focuses on the connection between the counsellor and the client. It pays attention to feelings, bodily sensations and patterns of relating. In online sessions the same attention to the relationship guides the work and helps people notice how they react in real time during conversations.

Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and the nature of the difficulties before suggesting EMDR or other ways of working. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.

Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions suit those with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, when writing feels easier, or to fit support around a busy day. Registered and accredited professionals can use these formats to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into everyday life.