Krystyna Jankowska

Krystyna Jankowska is a counsellor and psychotherapist who helps people cope after traumatic events and significant life changes. She works with anxiety, grief, depression and relationship or intimacy concerns, and supports people facing stress, addictions and parenting challenges. Krystyna is fluent in English and Polish and meets people in the language they prefer.

She holds a degree from the University of Greenwich and has four years of professional experience. Krystyna offers short-term, solution-focused work of up to twelve sessions as well as open-ended counselling paced to a client's readiness for change. In sessions she aims to build a reliable professional relationship based on trust and clear boundaries.

Krystyna uses conversations to trace the roots of difficult feelings and to show how those patterns affect daily life. From that shared understanding she and the client choose practical ways to manage symptoms and move towards more contentment. She describes the process as collaborative and paced to the individual's needs.

Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, coping with illness or caregiving stress, sexual and intimacy issues, ADHD, bipolar and co-morbid presentations. She also works with people facing career transitions, ageing and bereavement, and those exploring kink or alternative sex culture.

People who contact Krystyna can expect gentle challenge alongside practical strategies. She supports each person to decide the pace of work and offers sessions in either English or Polish.

How Krystyna uses therapeutic approaches online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels heard and understood; it helps when someone needs a steady, accepting space to make sense of painful experiences.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect, and introduces practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it can be useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people recognise and work with core emotions in order to improve how they relate to themselves and others, which can ease relationship distress and attachment issues.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist and client review goals, preferences and how symptoms show up, then agree on methods to try. Krystyna adapts her approach over time based on what works for the person.

The profile notes that sessions are available through an online platform and by phone; please confirm the exact session formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. For some people phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs and feel less demanding than being on camera, while online video supports face-to-face conversation from a distance.