Karina Kaminski, NCPS

Karina Kaminski is a counsellor who blends practical, person-focused work with mindful awareness. She uses straightforward conversation to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression and midlife changes. Karina brings three years of experience and holds NCPS as her listed credential. She keeps sessions warm and interactive. Conversations focus on what matters to the individual and on clear, manageable steps. She avoids stigmatizing labels and listens to what a person wants to achieve from therapy. Karina draws on client-centred ideas to make therapy feel collaborative and respectful. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try small experiments that can change day-to-day routines. Mindfulness tools are suggested to steady difficult feelings and reduce reactivity. Her approach is adaptable. She combines elements from different ways of working to suit each person’s needs and circumstances. This tailored plan is discussed together rather than applied in a fixed way. People come to Karina for many reasons, including grief, parenting stress, relationship strain, anger, and challenges around identity or life purpose. She also has experience with trauma-related issues, panic, attachment concerns and caregiving stress. The focus is on practical steps, clearer thinking and renewed coping as goals of the work.

Approaches for online therapy and how they help

Karina uses client-centred principles to place the person’s goals at the heart of each session. This means the therapist listens closely and shapes conversations around what the client most wants to change. It helps when people need a respectful, steady place to sort out feelings and priorities. She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behaviour changes. CBT is practical for anxiety, panic, low mood and coping with life transitions because it breaks problems into manageable steps. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karina will discuss different ways of working and agree a plan based on a person’s needs, goals and preferences. That collaboration helps adjust techniques over time if something isn’t working. Please confirm the current online session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to use homework strategies and mindfulness between sessions to build new habits.