Violetta Staron

Violetta Staron is a BACP counsellor with 20 years of experience. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression and life transitions. She also helps with relationship issues, parenting strain, addiction concerns and separation or divorce matters. Sessions are offered in English and Polish.

Violetta works from the view that each person knows their story best. She listens and asks practical questions that help people recognise strengths and next steps. The aim is to make change feel manageable rather than overwhelming.

Her approach blends methods from Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy and Compassion-Focused Therapy, with a person-centred base. In practice that means noticing unhelpful patterns, trying small changes and building kinder self-talk. Sessions can include straightforward exercises, short goal planning and reflective conversation.

Over two decades she has seen many different problems and life stages. That experience informs a flexible way of working rather than a single method. People often come for help with grief, trauma, identity and issues around intimacy or sexuality.

Her work also covers practical family concerns such as blended family issues, communication problems and family of origin difficulties. Violetta supports parents with postpartum challenges and people coping with midlife questions or career crossroads. If someone wants help getting started they are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits them.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Violetta blends evidence-based techniques to help people manage current problems and build new habits. Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and uses simple experiments and tasks to change unhelpful patterns. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on strengths and practical goals, helping people identify small steps that move them towards what matters. Compassion-Focused ideas encourage kinder self-talk and reduced self-criticism, useful for shame, guilt and low mood.

Finding the right mix is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals, preferences and day-to-day needs. That shared planning helps tailor sessions so people can try methods that feel most useful to them.

The original profile does not list specific online formats. Please confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people work from a location that helps them focus and makes attending sessions more practical around work or childcare commitments.