Janis Dreosti, BACP

Janis Dreosti is a qualified counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. She works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and family issues, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting challenges, and work-related stress. Janis also offers help for more specific needs such as ADHD, abandonment and codependency, and difficulties arising from blended families or separation.

Her style is interactive and relaxed, designed to help people feel at ease so sessions can focus on what the client wants from therapy and how they wish to move forward. She personalises therapy by integrating a variety of therapeutic skills and practical tools, and she uses psychoeducation to help clients understand why they may be feeling overwhelmed or stuck. For trauma work she focuses on the effects the experience has left rather than pressing for detailed accounts of past events, and she moves at the client’s pace while treating the client as the expert on themselves.

Janis has particular experience working with young people and students who may be dealing with anxieties that feel overwhelming. In addition to private practice she has worked for over five years with a local charity supporting and counselling people affected by domestic violence, sexual abuse, PTSD and depression. She holds BACP membership (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy).

Initial sessions focus on understanding how current issues are affecting daily life and what a client hopes to achieve from counselling, with collaborative planning of the next steps to move from where they are now toward where they want to be.

Therapeutic approaches for online support

Client-Centered Therapy places the client at the heart of the process, offering a supportive, non-directive space where individuals set the pace and focus. This approach helps with issues like low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, and adapting to life changes by building self-understanding and personal agency.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. It is practical and skills-oriented, often used to address anxiety, depression, OCD patterns and problems with managing overwhelming emotions.

Trauma-Focused Therapy works with the impact that traumatic events have left behind rather than prompting detailed recounting of past events. It aims to reduce the ways trauma affects daily functioning and supports gradual, paced recovery from symptoms such as hyperarousal, numbness, or intrusive thoughts.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey and is decided together. Janis collaborates with clients to assess needs, goals and preferences and adapts methods so therapy fits the individual rather than the other way around.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - appointments by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging make it easier to fit sessions around work, study and family life. These options allow clients and registered professionals to maintain continuity of care, access support from different locations, and choose the mode of communication that feels most comfortable.