Aldona Olchanowska

Aldona Olchanowska is a professional counsellor and psychotherapist with 20 years of clinical experience. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), membership number 383282, and practices in line with their ethical framework.

Her professional background includes work in the United States and Poland across a range of treatment and educational settings, and she now lives and works in London. Aldona completed five years of formal study at Warsaw University in Poland, earning an MS in Special Education, followed by three years at North Dakota State University in the USA where she gained an M.Ed. in Counselling and Guidance. She also spent a year studying Clinical Social Work at the University of Denver and undertook clinical practice in a university psychiatric hospital, alongside training in several psychotherapeutic schools.

Aldona employs an integrative approach that draws on multiple modalities, including Person-Centred and Humanistic methods, to provide holistic support. She has experience helping people with relationship and family difficulties, eating and food-related concerns, trauma, sexual issues, neurodiversity, grief and loss, depression and anxiety, among other challenges.

Her practice is age-, race-, faith- and LGBTQ+ affirmative, and she treats everyone with respect, sensitivity and compassion. Aldona aims to support clients who are ready to engage in the significant work therapy requires to create meaningful change in their lives.