Zuzanna Horowska, BACP

Zuzanna Horowska is a qualified Humanistic Integrative Counsellor who draws on a range of therapeutic traditions to meet each client's individual needs. She pays close attention to unconscious processes and to what is held in the body, and she values thinking, sensing, intuiting, and feeling as important parts of the therapeutic work. Zuzanna practices from a relational perspective, believing that the quality of the therapeutic relationship plays a central role in shifting how clients perceive their environment and relate to others. She blends psychodynamic, object-relations, and transactional analysis ideas with elements of Gestalt and occasional body-based exercises, and she also applies cognitive behavioural techniques when they are appropriate. In addition, her practice includes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a method often used for processing distressing memories.

Zuzanna works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and life transitions. Her approach aims to deepen self-understanding, improve communication of feelings and needs, and help clients notice how past experiences affect the present. She offers creative therapeutic tasks and practical tools when helpful, and sometimes suggests brief homework to support progress between sessions.

Her experience includes work alongside her private practice with organisations such as Macmillan Cancer Support, Woman & Health, and EACH, supporting people affected by cancer, mental health difficulties, and substance use. Zuzanna is registered with BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

EMDR is a structured therapy that helps clients process distressing memories through guided bilateral stimulation while attending to thoughts and feelings; it is often used for trauma-related symptoms and events that continue to affect daily life. A psychodynamic-influenced relational approach focuses on patterns that arise in relationships and on how early experiences shape present ways of relating - therapy explores those patterns to increase self-awareness and change unhelpful repeating cycles.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey, and Zuzanna works collaboratively with each person to identify methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors the mix of techniques over time, listening to the client's experience and adjusting the plan as therapy progresses.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call or phone, and support can continue through live chat or text-based messaging when that suits the client. These options make it easier to arrange appointments around daily life, maintain continuity of care during transitions, and access consistent support without travelling to an office.