Monika Stachyra - Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Monika Strachyra believes therapy is about creating a safe and supportive space for exploring life transitions and challenges. The relationship with clients she aims for is based on collaboration and trust, which is an important vehicle for healing and experimenting with what is new and possible.
Monika's practice is underpinned by Transactional Analysis, which is an accessible approach that allows people to understand better themselves and how they relate to others. Children and throughout life, we learn to behave and feel in certain ways, whilst these patterns are necessary to survive initially, they may get stuck in repeating similar relationships and situations. Therapy supports the awareness, adaptation and letting go of what is no longer helpful.
Monika integrates her core theoretical framework with other techniques and creativity so the process is flexible and allows for what can be difficult and unspoken to emerge. The client’s consent is a key principle of my work.
The therapeutic work may encompass a wide range of issues, these goal of our work can be focused on:
- exploration (e.g. I want to explore how loss/trauma affected my life)
- dealing with a specific issue (e.g. I want to deal with stress better)
- clarification (e.g. I want to understand my relationships)
- development (e.g. I want to lead a more meaningful life)
Monika is a qualified and experienced psychotherapeutic counsellor and has been passionately involved in additional training, particularly around attachment issues and trauma. She also undertakes in depth supervision to support my learning and development as a practitioner.
Her background prior to becoming a counsellor, is in voluntary sector. Having worked with helping professionals and mental health practitioners in the NHS for the last 10 years. This experience, as well as work as an interpreter in my earlier career have given her invaluable understanding and compassion for people experiencing psychological difficulties and the circumstances in which they occur.
Monika abides by ethical codes of National Counselling Society and United Kingdom Association for Transactional Analysis.