Oana Chiru, BACP
15 years in practice
Oana Chiru is a BACP counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and difficult life changes.
License and registration
- BACP
- 377647 · expires February 2026
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English, French, Romanian
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Oana
Oana Chiru is a BACP counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and difficult life changes. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space for people to talk through painful experiences and find practical ways forward. She uses a blend of approaches to meet each person’s needs.
This includes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma-related material, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to build values-based action, and client-centred listening to help people feel heard.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored rather than one-size-fits-all. With 15 years of experience, she draws on short-term and longer-term work. She helps with issues such as depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addictions and ADHD-related coping.
She also supports people facing career strain, caregiver stress and chronic illness challenges. Oana works in English, French and Romanian and sees people in the United Kingdom as well as international clients. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and routines.
Her style is straightforward and supportive. People who want clear steps alongside reflective listening often find this approach useful. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect a person with a suitable schedule and session format.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Oana lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Oana names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How chosen approaches translate into online therapy
Oana often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and gently commit to actions that match their values; this works well for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a trauma-focused approach that helps reduce the intensity of distressing memories and bodily reactions when trauma comes up.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with the person about goals and preferences, then adapt methods that fit their situation. The process is collaborative, and strategies are revised as needs change.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins and text messaging can work for ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to choose the format that feels most comfortable.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma, and also supports people with relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, grief and self-esteem concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style blends listening with practical tools. She uses client-centred conversations alongside approaches such as ACT and EMDR to address symptoms and life patterns.
How long has she worked in counselling?
She has 15 years of experience working in both short-term and longer-term counselling and psychotherapy settings.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration as a counsellor and psychotherapist.
Can I work with her if I live abroad?
Yes, international clients are accepted and she offers sessions to people outside the UK.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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