Karolina Callaghan, BACP

Karolina Callaghan is a humanistic counsellor and therapist who works from a compassionate, respectful, and empathetic stance. She prioritizes collaborative work, believing that each person is the expert on their own life and that therapy is a shared space to explore feelings, values, and goals. Karolina draws on client-centered and existential approaches to help people increase self-awareness, notice where familiar coping strategies may no longer serve them, and discover new choices that support greater authenticity.

Before training as a therapist, Karolina spent a decade in the health and social care sector, including roles within the NHS and private settings. She completed a postgraduate diploma in Humanistic Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Brighton. During her training she worked as a therapist in a hospice, supporting people through grief and loss, and she has volunteered with a low-cost counselling charity assisting people experiencing depression, anxiety, alcoholism, and low self-esteem.

Karolina supports work on a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and food-related difficulties, and career or workplace challenges. She also offers focused help with caregiver stress, feelings of emptiness, guilt and shame, life purpose, financial worries, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, self-harm, self-love, and hospice or end-of-life matters. As a registered member of the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - Karolina follows established professional standards and an ethical framework, and her registration number is 402475.

Karolina provides therapy in English and Czech and is currently accepting clients in the United Kingdom. Her style is relational and nonjudgmental, aiming to create a space where healing and growth can unfold at each person’s pace.