Livia Maria Nestianu, BACP

Livia Maria Nestianu uses an integrative approach to counselling that adapts to each person's needs. She blends methods such as client-centred therapy, attachment ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and somatic work to help people make sense of difficult feelings and situations. Livia holds BACP and draws on five years of experience working with a wide range of concerns. Sessions aim to create a calm space to talk through what matters most to the client.

Her practice supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression and trauma and abuse. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, and career or life changes. Living with health challenges is listed among her focus areas, including chronic pain, illness and disability, and she offers understanding around caregiver stress and co-morbidity.

Livia uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their values and take workable steps, and she applies Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns. Attachment-based ideas inform her work on relationship habits and early life wounds. Somatic techniques are used when the body holds strong emotional reactions.

Her style is person-centred, which means the client’s experience shapes the session. Conversations are practical and plain. Livia encourages clients to try small experiments between meetings and to build concrete skills for coping and change.

Sessions are conducted in English and Romanian. Her practice is based in the United Kingdom and reflects five years of clinical experience.

How Livia applies therapeutic approaches online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values, even when emotions are difficult. It suits stress, anxiety, grief and long-term health challenges where living well alongside symptoms is a goal. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, which can help with anxiety, depression and mood regulation by teaching practical skills and experiments.

Finding the right way of working is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose which approach or mix of approaches best fits their goals, needs and preferences. Sessions can be adjusted as the work evolves, so the plan responds to what actually helps.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around daily life, for example by avoiding travel, allowing shorter check-ins between busy days, or letting someone choose not to use video if that feels better. Many people find that practical tools from ACT and CBT translate well to remote meetings, and somatic practices can be guided verbally to support body-focused awareness.