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Livia Maria Nestianu, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 5 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English, Romanian
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue
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Livia Maria Nestianu works from an integrative, person-centred approach that puts the client’s experience first. She combines practical tools with listening and reflection to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. Livia uses clear, everyday language and builds sessions around what each person needs in the moment.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take values-based steps. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships, intimacy and abandonment wounds.
Background and approach
Somatic techniques are used when physical responses to stress need gentle attention. Livia trained in psychology before completing counselling studies and has five years of professional experience. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, which is noted here as her listed credential.
She works with adults on a range of concerns including grief, addiction, bipolar mood issues, eating and self-esteem. Therapy sessions are offered in English and Romanian and can address workplace stress, career change and caregiver strain. People also consult her about communication problems, codependency and compounding difficulties such as chronic pain and co-morbidity.
Her style is calm and straightforward. Sessions aim to help people find small, doable changes and steady coping strategies. The focus is on practical steps that fit day-to-day life, not jargon or long theoretical explanations.
How Livia’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters to them and take small steps towards those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It is useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers straightforward exercises to shift unhelpful patterns and improve mood.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationship patterns and early attachment experiences. Online work can explore how these patterns show up now and build alternative ways of relating that support intimacy and self-worth. Livia blends these approaches with person-centred listening, so the style is collaborative and paced to the individual.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will discuss goals, preferences and what feels helpful, and then try techniques together. This may mean mixing ACT, CBT or attachment-focused ideas across sessions and adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the process consistent and goal-focused.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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