About
Professional background, approach and registration
I am Dr Anna Wachowska, a HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist offering remote psychological assessment, formulation, therapy and clinical supervision for adults across the UK.
I have worked across NHS, community, forensic, inpatient and private settings, supporting people experiencing a wide range of psychological difficulties.
Since 2020, I have worked within a nationwide occupational mental health service, providing therapy and specialist psychological assessments for individuals across diverse industries, including executive and leadership roles, frontline professions and Blue Light services.
Alongside private practice, I supervise clinicians, lead continuing professional development (CPD), and contribute to clinical governance, quality assurance and service development.
How I work
My clinical work is integrative, grounded in psychodynamic and relational thinking, and informed by attachment theory, trauma research and contemporary neuroscience.
This means I consider not only your current symptoms, but also how earlier experiences, relationships and life events may continue to shape how you experience yourself, others and the world around you, while recognising how stress, adversity and trauma can shape the nervous system's responses, influencing emotions, behaviour and our capacity to cope.
I place particular emphasis on developing a comprehensive, individualised psychological formulation that makes sense of your experiences, current difficulties and the patterns that connect them.
This shared understanding helps identify the factors contributing to and maintaining psychological difficulties, while guiding therapeutic priorities and the interventions most likely to facilitate the psychological shifts needed to achieve your therapeutic goals.
Therapy involves exploring patterns that often sit outside immediate awareness yet continue to influence thoughts, emotions, relationships and behaviour. Understanding these patterns can help explain why certain difficulties persist despite our best efforts to change them.
However, therapy is not only about understanding why difficulties have developed. Equally important is translating that understanding into practical changes that improve day-to-day life, relationships and emotional wellbeing.
Depending on your individual needs and therapeutic goals, our work may involve strengthening emotion regulation, developing greater self-compassion, recognising and changing longstanding relational patterns, experimenting with new ways of responding, or processing experiences that continue to shape life in the present, including through EMDR where appropriate.
Rather than being guided by a single therapeutic model, interventions are selected according to your formulation, therapeutic priorities and goals. Where appropriate, I integrate ideas and techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), compassion-focused therapy (CFT), dynamic interpersonal therapy (DIT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based approaches, emotion-focused therapy (EFT) and EMDR.
My aim is to support you in developing changes that are not only meaningful within therapy, but sustainable beyond it.
Areas I Work With
I work with a wide range of emotional, relational and psychological difficulties, including but not limited to:
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Anxiety, panic and excessive worry
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Depression and low mood
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Stress, burnout and workplace difficulties
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Anger, irritability & difficulties managing emotions
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Overwhelm and impulsivity
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Self-harm
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Obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviours and perfectionism
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Addictive behaviours
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Self-esteem, self-criticism and shame
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Body image concerns and disordered eating
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Relationship and interpersonal difficulties
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Attachment-related difficulties
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Longstanding relational and personality patterns
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Trauma and adverse life experiences
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Loss, bereavement and life transitions
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Identity, personal development & life changes
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Health anxiety and medically unexplained symptoms
I also have experience working with more complex and enduring psychological difficulties where these can be safely
supported within an outpatient setting.
Remote Therapy
All appointments are provided remotely (online) for adults living in the UK.
Professional Training & Registration
Dr Anna Wachowska is a HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist (Registration Number: PYL34303). Counselling Psychology is a protected professional title in the UK and can only be used by practitioners who have completed approved doctoral-level training and meet the standards required by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Doctoral training in Counselling Psychology integrates advanced clinical practice, psychological assessment, research and supervised experience across a range of clinical models and settings. This provides broad preparation for independent practice and an integrative, evidence-informed approach to psychological care.
You can verify my HCPC registration directly through the online register:
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