Dina Villanueva, BACP

Dina Villanueva recognises how modern life can feel fast-paced and overwhelming, and she understands the hesitations people may have about reaching out for support. She offers a warm, non-judgemental presence and listens closely to what is troubling an individual, helping them to take steps toward personal growth and change.

Dina works at each person’s pace, adapting to their needs and circumstances and offering flexible ways of engaging when requested. She values the therapeutic relationship and approaches counselling in a person-centred, relational way so that people are seen and heard as whole individuals. When useful, she also draws on solution-focused and psychodynamic ideas to explore links between present challenges and earlier life experiences.

Dina has five years of professional experience in mental health services, including three years of counselling work with adults and young people. She specialises in stress, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, self-esteem and coping with life changes, and she also works with concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, communication problems, guilt and shame, isolation, and women’s issues. Dina holds BACP membership - the professional association for counsellors and psychotherapists in the United Kingdom - and provides therapy in English and Danish.

Relational and Solution-Focused Support Online

Dina commonly works in a person-centred, relational way - an approach that places the therapeutic relationship at the centre of change, offering empathy and acceptance to help people explore their feelings and priorities. This approach can be helpful for stress, anxiety, self-esteem concerns and life transitions.

She also uses solution-focused techniques, which concentrate on identifying practical steps and strengths to move forward. Solution-focused work can be effective for improving communication, resolving relationship difficulties and addressing immediate coping needs. When helpful, Dina may draw on psychodynamic ideas to explore how past experiences influence present patterns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Dina will work with each person to identify which methods best match their needs, goals and preferences, adapting her style as the work progresses.

Online therapy with Dina is available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility to fit sessions into busy schedules and access support from different locations. Working with registered professionals in these formats can make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to choose the mode of contact that feels most comfortable and practical.