Adama Giquina, BACP

Adama Giquina is a person-centred integrative counsellor based in the United Kingdom who works with people navigating stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, and anger. She completed the TC - L4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling at Inspire Counselling / Barnabas Counselling and Training and holds membership of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), demonstrating her adherence to recognised professional standards. She brings five years of clinical experience and practices as a sessional counsellor at Survivors in Transition, where she completed her placement and has continued to work.

Adama provides a calm, non-judgemental environment where clients can explore how past experiences influence present thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Her work emphasises helping people recognise natural brain responses to distress and offers grounding techniques and awareness exercises to reduce hyperarousal and support emotional regulation. She listens with undivided attention, aims to establish trust, and supports clients to identify the changes they want to make.

Adama adapts her approach to each person, drawing on person-centred and trauma-informed methods to address multicultural concerns, immigration-related challenges, sexual assault and abuse, and issues commonly faced by young adults. She tailors dialogue and treatment plans to individual needs with the goal of increasing self-awareness, confidence, and healthier ways of living.

Online Approaches - Trauma-Informed and Person-Centred Care

Adama draws on client-centred therapy to create an accepting, empathetic space where clients lead the pace and focus of sessions; this approach helps people build self-understanding and make choices that reflect their values. Trauma-focused therapy is used to explore how distressing events affect emotions and behaviour, offering practical techniques to reduce hyperarousal and support recovery from trauma and abuse. Attachment-based ideas inform work on relationship patterns and intimacy, helping clients recognise relational histories and shift repeated dynamics.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process and Adama approaches this collaboratively. She will talk through goals, preferences, and presenting concerns with each person and together decide which methods or combination of methods best support those aims, adapting the plan as therapy progresses.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people with busy lives or limited local options. Sessions by video and phone allow focused conversation with visual or voice connection, while live chat and text-based messaging provide alternative ways to communicate when that feels more comfortable or convenient. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to fit therapy into everyday routines with licensed professionals and therapists who tailor their work to individual needs.