Emilia Gonczar , BACP

Emilia Gonczar is a bilingual psychotherapist who conducts sessions in English and Polish. She earned a Masters in Psychology from the University of Warsaw and completed a four-year psychoanalytical training at The Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, grounding her work in deep exploration of inner life and relational patterns.

Her clinical experience spans work on multiple psychiatric wards, including the Clinic of Neurosis, Personality and Eating Disorders, an Acute Psychiatric Ward, and a Children and Adolescent Ward. Emilia has also worked with charities such as Rethink Mental Illness - The National Schizophrenia Fellowship and has maintained a private practice, bringing a range of settings and populations into her clinical experience.

In practice she helps clients to better understand themselves, their relationships, and the interplay between past experiences and present-day difficulties. Emilia pays attention to thoughts, desires, fears, and the ways these shape behaviour, while maintaining a holistic focus that includes awareness of the body. Her approach aims to clarify internal conflicts and strengthen the capacity to manage life challenges. For reflections and writing she maintains a blog at https://mind-and-body.blog/.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Support

Emilia draws from several evidence-informed approaches to tailor work to each clients needs. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current attachment patterns and emotional responses, helping with relationship difficulties, trust issues, and attachment concerns. Psychodynamic Therapy explores unconscious patterns, recurring conflicts, and the influence of past experiences on present behaviour, which can be useful for understanding long-standing emotional difficulties and relational dynamics. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured approach often used to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional intensity, supporting recovery from trauma and distressing memories.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Emilia works collaboratively with clients to identify which methods feel like the best fit given their goals, preferences, and the nature of their concerns, and she may combine elements from different approaches as needed.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - clients can meet by video call, speak by phone, or use live chat and text-based messaging to fit sessions around work, family, and travel. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care across locations and schedules while working with licensed professionals and therapists who can adapt methods to remote formats.