Irina Florea, BACP

Irina Florea is a UK-based counsellor registered with the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) who offers both individual and couple therapy online and in person in Frome and Bristol. With a practice grounded in attachment awareness and trauma-informed care, she supports people navigating anxiety, stress, grief, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, and the exhaustion of burnout. Irina works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, parenting challenges, career stress, sleep difficulties, and complex family dynamics.

Her approach combines warmth and clarity with practical structure, helping clients understand the origins of repeating patterns and develop tools to change them. Clients have often reported feelings of being “never enough,” persistent overthinking, or emotional depletion; Irina focuses on exploring each person’s story with curiosity and compassion rather than judgment. She offers short- or long-term therapy tailored to individual goals, blending attachment-based thinking with somatic awareness, grounding exercises, mindfulness, and other nervous system-informed practices.

Irina has experience working with neurodiversity and ADHD, and she is LGBTQ+ affirming. She attends to cultural and migration-related layers of identity, drawing on her own experience of relocating between countries to sensitively address belonging, loss, and shifting roles. Practical skills and clear therapeutic structure are offered alongside reflective exploration to help clients find steadiness, clarity, and renewed confidence.

Outside of her practice, Irina stays active by going to the gym, running, and taking long walks with her dog. She values time with her partner, friends, and family abroad, and makes space for solitary activities like reading and listening to music. More information is available at www.irinaflorea.com

Attachment and person-centered approaches for online healing

Irina draws on attachment-based therapy to explore how early connection patterns shape current relationships and emotional responses; this approach helps when difficulties arise around trust, abandonment, or repeating relationship dynamics. She also uses client-centered therapy, which prioritizes a nonjudgmental, empathetic stance and supports people who want a compassionate space to build self-understanding, confidence, and personal agency. Psychodynamic ideas are woven into the work to help uncover repeated patterns and unconscious influences that contribute to anxiety, low self-esteem, or relational troubles.

Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Irina discusses different methods with clients, considers their needs and preferences, and adapts the work over time so the chosen approach fits the goals of therapy rather than imposing a fixed model.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or mobility needs. Registered professionals and therapists can provide consistent support without the need to travel, and the range of communication options allows people to find the format that feels most manageable and effective for them.