Janis Dreosti, BACP

Janis Dreosti is a UK-based counsellor who works with people experiencing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and the challenges that accompany life transitions. She brings a relaxed, interactive style to sessions so clients can feel at ease and focus on what they want to achieve from therapy. Janis personalises her work by integrating a range of therapeutic skills and practical tools to address difficulties such as feeling overwhelmed, struggling to switch off, low mood, and problems with motivation and confidence.

She has experience supporting young people and students, recognising the particular pressures and anxieties that can feel overwhelming at different life stages. Janis uses psycho-education to help clients understand why certain thoughts, emotions and behaviours occur, and then works collaboratively to develop techniques to manage them. When working with trauma she focuses on the effects the experience has left behind rather than pressing for details about the past, pacing the work according to the client and treating the client as the expert on their own life.

Her background includes counselling individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual abuse, PTSD and depression through a local charity, and she draws on approaches such as client-centred work, cognitive behavioural strategies, mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. Janis holds BACP credentials - that is membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and provides therapy in English from the United Kingdom.