Violetta Staron , BACP

Violetta Staron is a BACP accredited counsellor and psychotherapist with more than 20 years of experience working with adults and adolescents. She has supported a wide range of clients through challenges such as low mood, anxiety, relationship difficulties and life crises, approaching each person as the expert of their own story and drawing on their existing strengths to foster change.

Violetta frames therapy as a collaborative process that helps people better understand themselves, break unhelpful patterns and make decisions that improve both personal and professional wellbeing. Her work focuses on practical steps toward greater life satisfaction and healthier relationships while also attending to deeper emotional issues that can hold people back.

She uses an integrative approach that blends Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy and Compassion-Focused Therapy with a person-centred foundation. BACP refers to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and indicates professional accreditation in counselling and psychotherapy in the United Kingdom. This combination of methods allows her to tailor interventions to individual needs, balancing structured techniques with empathic listening and support.

Evidence-based approaches delivered online

Violetta commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Compassion-Focused Therapy as part of her online practice. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) involves identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours to reduce symptoms of anxiety, low mood and stress, and to support practical problem solving. Compassion-Focused Therapy helps people develop self-kindness and emotional regulation strategies, which can be useful for shame, self-criticism and trauma-related distress. She also uses Solution-Focused techniques that concentrate on building small, achievable steps toward the changes a client wants to see.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is determined collaboratively. Violetta works with clients to match methods to their needs, goals and preferences, adjusting techniques as therapy progresses so the plan feels helpful and realistic.

Online sessions - including video calls, phone appointments, live chat and text-based messaging - offer flexibility for people with busy schedules, mobility limits or geographic constraints. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to fit therapy into everyday life while still working with licensed professionals and trained therapists on meaningful personal change.