MA Renne Gorska

Renne Gorska, MA, trained as a psychologist and therapist and is registered in the British Psychological Society as a Chartered Psychologist, and in the Health and Care Professional Council (Association of Medical Profession) as a Counselling and Educational Psychologist.

She graduated in Poland and completed specialist courses in the UK. She works with adults, children and youth in the NHS and has run, for several years, a private practice in therapy. In addition, since 2009, she has coordinated the activities of the Children and Family Advice Centre PPA in London. It deals with therapy for  individuals, couples and children. It also supports parents and guardians in the educational process.

Therapeutic and consultative meetings are conducted in a spirit of integrative psychotherapy, which combines different approaches and their methods. Integrative Therapy is a coherent and reasoned theory of modality fusing psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT, DBT, ACT) and the humanistic-existential (PCT) system, and often works with the body.

While training she acquainted herself with specific methods characteristic of these therapeutic approaches. As a result, she gained a powerful set of skills that can be selected and used depending on the needs, characteristics and difficulties of an individual patient. Constant expansion of her perspective (including involvement in new healing approaches) ensures that this therapeutic work can bring greater benefits to the patient than using the same repetitive techniques.

Renata also leads therapies for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) using the EMDR method.

She is a member of:

• Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) (PYL29191);
• Association of Educational Psychologists, UK (AEP);
• Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, USA (ACBS);
• British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP);
• British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP);
• British Psychological Society (BPS) (CPsychol);
• British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA);
• College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists, UK (COSRT);
• Polish Psychologists' Association (Affiliate Member), UK (PPA);
• Professional English in London (PEL);
• Association of Polish Teachers Abroad – in London.

Education:

Poland

• CSWU (University. Cardinal S. Wyszynski University in Warsaw)  - MA in Psychology;
• UW (University of Warsaw) - MA in Polish philology, accreditation QTS (UK);
• UW (University of Warsaw) - MA in Cultural Studies and Mediterranean civilisation

United Kingdom - the leading courses, workshops and training:

• ACT - Training Course;
• ADHD Study Day & Shaping Futures for ADHD;
• CBT Certificate;
• CBT and Mentalisation;
• Certificate in Grief and Bereavement Counselling;
• Certificate in Personal Coaching;
• Diploma in Positive Psychology;
• Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy;
• Dynamic of Domestic Abuse (Foundation) Course;
• Engaging with Domestic Violence Perpetrators Course;
• LGBT Awareness training;
• Mentalisation-Based Treatments for Children and Young People;
• NLP Practitioner Course;
• Practitioner in NLP Coaching Course;
• Rogerian Therapy Certificate;
• Socratic Method, Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre;
• Solution-focused brief therapy with children, parents and schools;
• Understanding Young People who Hear Voices.

Renata Gorska offers:

• Support and guidance in the development, education and emotional problems or development of children;
• Psychological diagnosis and psychological tests;
• Family therapy;
• Couples therapy: a crisis in a relationship, communication problems, boredom;
• violence in the relationship;
• Individual therapy, including but not limited to: problems with adapting in the UK, loneliness, separation;
• Uncertainty when looking for a new job;
• A sense of dejection and sorrow;
• Low self-esteem;
• Relationships with others;
• Aggression;
• Emergencies;
• Disturbance of emotions (anxiety, depression, self-mutilation, neurosis);
• Personality disorders;
• Coping with stress;
• Loss of a loved one;
• Disorders associated with the experience of violence;
• Personal development;
• Diagnosis of intellect, abilities, personality traits;
• Group therapy for LGBTQ people;
• PTSD;

In addition she leads psychological research in children and adults – using tests, questionnaires,  wordless methods and can conduct these in Polish. She also gives professional opinions for Polish courts.