Oana Chiru, BACP

Oana Chiru is a BACP counsellor and psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom with 15 years of practice. She works with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns, and supports people facing trauma, addiction and codependency. Sessions are offered in English, French and Romanian, and she accepts international clients.

Oana uses a mix of therapy approaches rather than a single method. She blends elements from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centred work, existential thinking and trauma-focused methods to match what each person needs. In practical terms this means sessions may include noticing unhelpful patterns, learning new ways to respond, and exploring values that matter to the client.

Her style is conversational and focused on what people can do differently between sessions. Clients are invited to try small experiments and notice what works in daily life. She also uses trauma-focused work when past events are getting in the way of present functioning.

People come to her to understand their reactions, manage anxiety or low mood, or to deal with difficult relationships and family issues. She also supports those working on intimacy, codependency, grief, and life changes such as career moves or caregiving challenges.

In early meetings Oana clarifies goals and practical steps. She describes therapy as a collaborative process where clients and therapist decide what to try next. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and booking begins by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment.

Her background combines long-term counselling practice with a multi-model approach. This allows her to adapt methods across short and longer-term work depending on what the client wants to address.

How her approaches work for online therapy