Janis Dreosti

Janis Dreosti is a qualified counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She has experience supporting people with stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, motivation, self-esteem, confidence and depression.

Her sessions are delivered in an interactive and relaxed manner, with the aim that clients feel comfortable so work can focus on what they want from therapy and how to achieve it. She is experienced in counselling young people and students and understands the anxieties and pressures that can feel overwhelming.

Janis aims to help clients understand why they may be experiencing anxiety, OCD, low self-belief or confidence, anger or a sense of being overwhelmed, and to teach practical techniques to manage these difficulties. She has experience working with trauma, anxiety, stress and depression and recognises how these can affect day-to-day functioning, emotions and thinking.

Using psycho-education, she offers explanations about why symptoms arise as a starting point for addressing underlying issues. Therapy is personalised by integrating a range of therapeutic skills and tools that are effective for stress, depression and feelings of being overwhelmed.

When working with trauma, Janis does not ask clients to recount the past event; instead she focuses on the impact the experience has left behind and works at the client’s pace, acknowledging that each person is the expert on themselves. In addition to private practice, she has worked for over five years for a local charity supporting and counselling individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual abuse, PTSD and depression.

The first session is used to learn more about the client, how current issues are affecting their well-being and what they hope to gain from counselling, so that together they can plan the best place to start and work towards where the client wants to be.