Nicoleta Porojanu, BACP

Nicoleta Porojanu is a United Kingdom based therapist with 19 years of experience supporting people through trauma, relationship challenges, grief, and major life changes. She brings experience across clinical, voluntary, and private settings, having worked with palliative care services, residential and supported living mental health programs, and in private psychotherapy and counselling practice. Accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - she blends professional training with a personal understanding of hardship to inform her clinical work.

As a survivor of childhood trauma and triple negative breast cancer, Nicoleta draws on lived experience alongside professional skills to work compassionately with issues such as attachment and abandonment, family of origin difficulties, caregiving strain, chronic illness and pain, domestic violence, and patterns of codependency and avoidance. Her practice addresses both emotional symptoms and the relational dynamics that sustain them, helping clients navigate divorce, communication problems, commitment concerns, and the complex aftermath of loss and illness.

Her style is holistic and integrative, combining client-centered listening with cognitive and mindfulness-based tools, existential reflection, and depth-oriented perspectives when helpful. She offers a trauma-informed healing model aimed at helping people recover a sense of direction, repair relationships, and open to greater wellbeing. In addition to clinical work, Nicoleta hosts the Open To Happiness podcast and founded the mental health charity The Significant You, activities she considers extensions of her commitment to public mental health and shared learning.

Nicoleta invites those coping with relational pain, chronic health challenges, or life transitions to begin an inner journey toward clarity, resilience, and renewed connection. She works collaboratively to tailor interventions that fit each person and their unique circumstances.

Approaches and Online Support for Healing and Change

Nicoleta draws on client-centered therapy to place the person's experience at the heart of sessions, offering empathic listening and support that helps clients explore their values, relationships, and sense of self. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - is used to identify and shift patterns of thought and behavior that contribute to anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties, offering practical strategies to manage symptoms and build new habits. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and grounding techniques that can help with trauma responses, grief, chronic illness coping, and emotional regulation.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicoleta works with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences, adapting methods over time so the therapy remains aligned with what is most helpful for healing and personal growth.

Online therapy with Nicoleta is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or health demands. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of support across locations and time zones and can be a practical way to access licensed professionals and therapists when in-person options are limited.