Violetta Staron

Violetta Staron is a BACP counsellor with 20 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and loneliness. She works with adults and adolescents who are struggling with relationships, life changes, trauma, addiction or issues around identity and sexuality. She aims to support people feeling stuck and to help them find clearer ways forward.

Violetta believes each person knows their story best and brings their own strengths to change. She offers a calm, respectful space for people to talk things through and to identify small, practical steps that can improve daily life. Her manner is warm and direct, focused on what a person wants to achieve.

Her background includes many years working with a wide range of presenting problems and life stages. That experience has shaped a flexible style that adapts to each person’s needs, rather than following only one fixed method. She pays attention to patterns that keep difficulties repeating and to the coping strategies people already use.

Violetta draws on a mix of evidence-based techniques alongside a person-centred foundation. In practice this means working together to set clear goals and trying out changes between sessions. She also offers support with parenting strains, career worries, grief, midlife questions and isolation and loneliness.

Sessions are conducted in English and Polish and are based in the United Kingdom. Violetta is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and brings two decades of practical counselling experience to her work.

How evidence-based techniques work online

Violetta uses a person-centred base alongside evidence-informed techniques. One approach she combines is Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, which helps spot unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviours to reduce anxiety and low mood. Another strand is Solution-Focused work, which concentrates on small, achievable changes and practical steps people can try between sessions to move towards their goals.

She also draws on Compassion-Focused ideas to help people address self-criticism and build kinder ways of relating to themselves. Deciding which approaches to use is a collaborative process - the therapist and client explore what feels most helpful and adjust methods as progress is made.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available when you book since the biography does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, avoid travel time and have shorter check-ins when needed. It can also be useful for keeping continuity of support during life changes, and the therapist will help tailor the way sessions run to match a person’s goals and daily routine.