Barbara Kowalewska, MPsych

My work is grounded in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), an approach built on a simple but powerful premise: that you are not defined by your problems, and that the solutions to your difficulties already exist within you, waiting to be uncovered. Rather than spending sessions analysing what went wrong or excavating the past, we focus on where you want to go and what's already working, even when that feels hard to see. We move forward from your strengths, not backward from your pain. This doesn't mean difficult things go unacknowledged; it means we use them as information rather than letting them become the whole story. Alongside this, I integrate movement and mindfulness practices from my Move-Assure certification. For clients who feel disconnected, physically ungrounded, or stuck in their heads, working with the body, not just the mind, can open doors that conversation alone sometimes can't. Maybe you're going through a period where anxiety has become your constant background noise, the kind that follows you into ordinary moments and makes everything feel heavier than it should. Maybe you're struggling with a sense of not knowing who you are anymore, or who you're supposed to become. Maybe loneliness has crept in quietly, even when your life looks full from the outside. If any of this sounds familiar, you're not broken. You're navigating something genuinely hard, and you don't have to do it alone. I work with people who are ready to stop just getting through it and start feeling like themselves again. My sessions are warm, collaborative, and grounded in the belief that you already have more inner resources than you realise. Together, we find them.