Adama Giquina

Adama Giquina is a Person-Centred Integrative counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience.

She qualified in 2020 after completing the TC - L4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling at Inspire Counselling / Barnabas Counselling and Training, and she progressed from a student member to a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) as a qualified counsellor.

Adama works as a sessional counsellor at Survivors in Transition, where she completed her placement five years ago and has remained in that role.

Her practice focuses on helping people make sense of their experiences in a safe, non-judgemental setting. She explains how present reactions can be the brain’s way of coping with past events and supports clients in linking earlier experiences with current patterns.

Adama offers grounding techniques and awareness exercises in the here and now to help clients feel safe, reduce hyperarousal, and build emotion regulation skills. She brings compassion and empathy to the therapeutic relationship and aims to guide clients toward greater self-awareness, confidence, and positive change.

She listens with undivided attention and seeks to establish trust and understanding, tailoring dialogue and a treatment plan to each person’s specific needs. Adama has worked with clients from a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, and she is open to differences in gender expression and sexuality.

Her areas of experience include stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and anger. She treats everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and she recognises the courage it takes to begin therapy.