- Warm collaborative style
- Attachment-informed care
- Practical grounding tools
About Irina
Irina Florea is a counsellor (BACP) based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, sleep problems and relationship strains. She works with people coping with grief, trauma, addiction and career or parenting challenges. Her approach aims to help those who feel stuck, overwhelmed or emotionally exhausted find steadiness and clearer direction.
Irina offers a warm, straightforward style. Sessions are collaborative and focus on making sense of repeating patterns. She listens for where those patterns started and helps people build practical steps to change them.
Her work is informed by attachment thinking and psychodynamic ideas, brought alongside client-centred care and existential questions about meaning and choice. This combination lets Irina explore how early relationships, current roles and life transitions shape feelings and behaviour.
She uses gentle somatic practices and nervous-system awareness alongside talking. That can include simple grounding and mindfulness tools to help people notice bodily signals and find ways to regulate overwhelming feelings. Sessions may also include structured, practical strategies when helpful.
Irina describes her manner as compassionate, clear and collaborative. She also brings personal experience of living between cultures, which she uses to support people navigating belonging, identity and major life changes. To begin, people select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to book according to the therapist's schedule.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Irina works from attachment-informed and client-centred perspectives alongside psychodynamic thinking. Attachment-based work focuses on how past close relationships shape feelings and reactions now, which can help with anxiety, relationship patterns and sleep problems. Client-centred therapy gives space for people to lead the conversation while the counsellor offers acceptance and careful listening, useful for building self-esteem and processing grief. Psychodynamic ideas look at recurring patterns and unconscious influences to help make sense of why certain problems keep returning.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Irina will work collaboratively to decide what feels most useful based on a person's goals, current difficulties and preferred pace. She aims to adapt methods as the work unfolds rather than prescribing one fixed route from the start.
Session formats are not listed here, so please confirm the current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, cut out travel time and allow check-ins from different locations. They also make it simpler to arrange shorter follow-ups or longer therapy blocks around work, childcare and day-to-day responsibilities.
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Experience
4+ years
Credentials
United Kingdom
Languages
English, Romanian
Frequently asked questions
What problems does she help with?
Irina supports people with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, sleep difficulties, grief, trauma, addictions and relationship or family concerns. She also works with career issues, parenting strain, ADHD-related challenges and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm, clear and collaborative. She combines empathic listening with practical steps and gentle somatic tools to help people feel steadier and more able to cope.
What experience does she bring?
She has four years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and relational difficulties, including complex family patterns and trauma.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the BACP and works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Romanian.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time; sessions are arranged for people based in the United Kingdom.
How are sessions paid for?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What steps do I take to start therapy?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.