Ariana Pedzikowska

All sessions are currently offered online

Sessions available:

• individual session (50 minutes) - £95

I typically offer sessions Mon–Thurs, 8am–3.30pm, with limited evening availability. Please do get in touch to discuss what works for you.

Experienced Counsellor & Trauma Specialist, 10+ years. I work with trauma and how it shapes your relationship with yourself and others, including people pleasing and never feeling good enough, so how you feel inside starts to match who you are.

Growing up with trauma or difficult early relationships can make the world feel like an unsafe place. There's often a cost to that, a loneliness that's hard to explain, even to yourself. A quiet persistent sense that something is wrong with you.

Maybe you're not even sure who you are outside of what you do for others anymore. Always being the one others lean on, while your own needs stay invisible. Only that carrying everyone else's expectations is no longer sustainable.

Not just in romantic relationships. The friendships where you give everything and still feel alone. The family dynamics you can't seem to escape. The workplace where you over-explain, or brace for criticism before it even arrives.

And sometimes, the relationship with your own children, fearing you are carrying patterns forward that were never yours to begin with. The relationship with yourself, the inner voice that's never quite satisfied.

Something I've learned across more than a decade of clinical work, is that trauma often doesn't live in the past. It lives in your sleep, your body, and your relationships - in the quiet belief that you are somehow the problem. And very often, it shows up in anxiety, people pleasing, burnout, codependency, and patterns rooted in childhood trauma and relationships that were never quite safe enough.

Many of the people I work with don't arrive describing themselves as someone who's been through trauma. Because sometimes trauma is one clear event. Sometimes it's the accumulation of difficult experiences over time. You don't need the perfect label for it to matter.

Whatever brings you here, change is possible. In over 10 years of this work, I've seen it happen, and it rarely looks the way people expect.

I've spent over a decade sitting with people through some of the most difficult moments of their lives. That experience has given me something that goes beyond clinical training - a genuine, deep understanding of how trauma shapes identity, relationships, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what we deserve.

I bring both professional and personal understanding to this work, alongside authentic human realness and clinical experience. I believe the therapeutic relationship is the foundation from which real healing becomes possible. I offer an integrative, trauma-informed approach tailored entirely to you, drawing from attachment theory, somatic awareness and nervous system regulation, using a three-phase approach to trauma. No single path fits everyone.

I believe every person has the capacity to heal and to build the relationships they deserve. My role is to work alongside you, not to fix you, but to help you reconnect with the part of yourself that already knows the way.

Initial session: £65 for 50 minutes

Ongoing individual sessions: £95 for 50 minutes

I offer an initial session (50 minutes) this gives us enough time to get a sense of whether working together feels right. In trauma therapy, the relationship between client and therapist is central to outcomes. Finding someone you feel genuinely comfortable with is where good therapy begins.

If I'm not the right fit, I'm happy to support you in finding a different trauma therapist. There is no expectation to commit to regular sessions after the initial session.

I hold a limited number of concessionary places, because I recognise that circumstances beyond our control can affect all of us. Please mention this when you get in touch.

I respond to all enquiries within 1 working day.

All sessions are currently offered online

Sessions available:

• Initial session (50 minutes) - £65

• Weekly (50 minutes) - £95

I offering therapy to clients across South Manchester and Cheshire, including Didsbury, Chorlton, Wilmslow, Altrincham, Hale, and Bowdon.

I typically offer sessions Mon–Thurs, 8am–3.30pm, with limited evening availability. Please do get in touch to discuss what works for you.

You give a lot. You worry a lot. And somehow, relationships still feel harder than they should. I'm a trauma therapist with over 10+ years experience helping people with relationship anxiety, people pleasing, attachment & burnout.

To the outside world you may seem fine - warm, capable, always coping. But there's a cost to wearing that mask, and often it's a loneliness that's hard to explain, even to yourself.

Maybe you second-guess yourself constantly, wondering if you're too sensitive, too needy, or simply asking for too much. Maybe you're not even sure what you need anymore, only that the way things are doesn't feel sustainable.

Not just in romantic relationships. The friendships where you give everything and still feel alone. The family dynamics you can't seem to escape. The workplace where you over-explain, or brace for criticism. The relationship with yourself, the inner voice that's never quite satisfied.

Something I've learned across more than a decade of clinical work, is that trauma often doesn't live in the past. It lives in your sleep, your body, and your relationships - in the quiet belief that you are somehow the problem. And very often, it shows up in anxiety, people pleasing, burnout, codependency, and patterns rooted in childhood trauma and relationships that were never quite safe enough.

Many of the people I work with don't arrive describing themselves as someone who's been through trauma. Because sometimes trauma is one clear event. Sometimes it's the accumulation of difficult experiences over time. You don't need the perfect label for it to matter.

Whatever brings you here, and however long you've been carrying it, change is possible. In over 10 years of this work, I've seen it happen, and it rarely looks the way people expect.

I've spent over a decade sitting with people through some of the most difficult moments of their lives. That experience has given me something that goes beyond clinical training - a genuine, deep understanding of how trauma shapes identity, relationships, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what we deserve.

I bring both professional and personal understanding to this work, alongside authentic human realness and clinical experience. I believe the therapeutic relationship is the foundation from which real healing becomes possible. I offer an integrative, trauma-informed approach tailored entirely to you, drawing from attachment theory, somatic awareness and nervous system regulation, using a three-phase approach to trauma. No single path fits everyone.

I believe every person has the capacity to heal and to build the relationships they deserve. My role is to work alongside you, not to fix you, but to help you reconnect with the part of yourself that already knows the way.

Therapy with me is an open and individual process meaning there is no set number of sessions.

I offer an initial session (50 minutes) this gives us enough time to get a sense of whether working together feels right. In trauma therapy, the relationship between client and therapist is central to outcomes, finding someone you feel genuinely comfortable with is where good therapy begins. There is no expectation to commit to regular sessions after the initial session.

I offer online therapy and counselling to clients across South Manchester and Cheshire, including Didsbury, West Didsbury, East Didsbury, Withington, Chorlton, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Moor, Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme, Gatley, Northenden, Wilmslow, Altrincham, Hale, Bowdon, and the surrounding areas.

Support is available so do reach out. I reply to all enquiries within 24 hours.

All sessions are currently offered online.

I typically offer sessions Monday-Thursday, 8am-4pm, with some evening availability. Please do get in touch to discuss what works for you.

I work with adults who, underneath their kindness and care, struggle with people-pleasing and never feeling good enough. I'm an Integrative Psychotherapist with over 10 years experience, including 5 in a specialist trauma service. You're welcome here.

I've spent over a decade supporting adults, the last five specialising in trauma and people-pleasing, drawing on hundreds of conversations with people who called themselves a 'people-pleaser' long before they ever thought to call it trauma.

Hi, I'm Ariana, a BACP fully qualified and accredited counsellor & psychotherapist.

You give a lot. You worry a lot. And somehow it's never quite enough.

There's often a loneliness that's hard to explain, even to yourself. A quiet, persistent sense that something is wrong with you. Maybe you're the one everyone leans on, the one whose own needs have a habit of staying invisible.

It shows up everywhere, not just in romantic relationships. The friendships where you give everything and still feel alone. The workplace where you overcommit, or brace for criticism before it arrives. And always the relationship with yourself, the inner voice that's never quite satisfied, often a quiet echo of what trauma first taught you to believe about who you are and what you deserve.

People-pleasing rarely arrives alone. It brings company: anxiety that won't switch off, avoiding confrontation at almost any cost, a constant low hum of not being quite good enough. Sometimes it means saying yes to plans you didn't have the energy for, because disappointing someone felt worse than disappointing yourself.

For many, it began somewhere specific, in childhood, in relationships that weren't quite safe enough to just be yourself. Some people had one clear, difficult experience. For others it was an accumulation. Both matter. Both are welcome here.

Something I've learned across more than a decade of clinical work is that trauma often doesn't live in the past. It lives in your sleep, your body, and your relationships.

Over the past five years I've worked as an integrative trauma therapist within a specialist trauma service, developing expertise in childhood trauma, people-pleasing, codependency, anxiety, and low self-worth. I've learned these patterns rarely look how people expect trauma to look. They look like over-explaining an opinion nobody challenged. They look like a version of yourself that learned, long ago, that it was easier to be needed than to be known. Before that, I spent five years working across counselling settings including the charity sector, with organisations such as Mind.

Getting started

If you're tired of putting yourself last, and ready to feel safe and comfortable enough to prioritise yourself, to notice what you want before working out what everyone else needs, even if it comes with guilt at first, I'd welcome you to get in touch. You don't need a clear starting point, just a sense that this might be the right space. I respond to all enquiries within one working day.

Initial session: £65

Regular sessions: £85 to £100 per session.

I work on a scale rather than a single fixed fee, because I believe it's important that cost isn't the reason someone doesn't reach out. When we first speak, we'll find the fee that's right for you.

I offer an initial session (60 minutes) this gives us enough time to get a sense of whether working together feels right. In therapy, the relationship between client and therapist is central to outcomes. Finding someone you feel genuinely comfortable with is where good therapy begins.

If I'm not the right fit, I'm happy to support you in finding a different therapist. There is no expectation to commit to regular sessions after the initial session.

I see the majority of my clients weekly, though fortnightly sessions are also available where needed. If you would like to meet fortnightly, I will discuss with you whether it's possible to meet weekly for the first six sessions, as this helps us establish our therapeutic relationship in the early stages of working together.

*Please note, all sessions are currently offered online*

All sessions are currently offered online

Sessions available:

• Initial session (50 minutes) - £65

• Weekly individual sessions (50 minutes) - £95

I typically offer sessions Mon–Thurs, 8am–3.30pm, with limited evening availability. Please do get in touch to discuss what works for you.

You give a lot. You worry a lot. And somehow, relationships still feel harder than they should. I'm a specialist trauma therapist with over 10+ years experience helping people with relationship anxiety, people pleasing, attachment & burnout.

To the outside world you may seem fine - warm, capable, always coping. But there's a cost to wearing that mask, and often it's a loneliness that's hard to explain, even to yourself.

Maybe you second-guess yourself constantly, wondering if you're too sensitive, too needy, or simply asking for too much. Maybe you're not even sure what you need anymore, only that the way things are doesn't feel sustainable.

Not just in romantic relationships. The friendships where you give everything and still feel alone. The family dynamics you can't seem to escape. The workplace where you over-explain, or brace for criticism. The relationship with yourself, the inner voice that's never quite satisfied.

Something I've learned across more than a decade of clinical work, is that trauma often doesn't live in the past. It lives in your sleep, your body, and your relationships - in the quiet belief that you are somehow the problem. And very often, it shows up in anxiety, people pleasing, burnout, codependency, and patterns rooted in childhood trauma and relationships that were never quite safe enough.

Many of the people I work with don't arrive describing themselves as someone who's been through trauma. Because sometimes trauma is one clear event. Sometimes it's the accumulation of difficult experiences over time. You don't need the perfect label for it to matter.

Whatever brings you here, and however long you've been carrying it, change is possible. In over 10 years of this work, I've seen it happen, and it rarely looks the way people expect.

I've spent over a decade sitting with people through some of the most difficult moments of their lives. That experience has given me something that goes beyond clinical training - a genuine, deep understanding of how trauma shapes identity, relationships, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what we deserve.

I bring both professional and personal understanding to this work, alongside authentic human realness and clinical experience. I believe the therapeutic relationship is the foundation from which real healing becomes possible. I offer an integrative, trauma-informed approach tailored entirely to you, drawing from attachment theory, somatic awareness and nervous system regulation, using a three-phase approach to trauma. No single path fits everyone.

I believe every person has the capacity to heal and to build the relationships they deserve. My role is to work alongside you, not to fix you, but to help you reconnect with the part of yourself that already knows the way.

Therapy with me is an open and individual process meaning there is no set number of sessions.

I offer an initial session (50 minutes) this gives us enough time to get a sense of whether working together feels right. In trauma therapy, the relationship between client and therapist is central to outcomes, finding someone you feel genuinely comfortable with is where good therapy begins. There is no expectation to commit to regular sessions after the initial session.

Support is available, so do reach out. I reply to all enquiries within 24 hours.

All sessions are currently offered online.

I typically offer sessions Mon-Thurs, 8am-4pm, with some evening availability. Please do get in touch to discuss what works for you.

I work with adults who, underneath their kindness and care, struggle with people-pleasing and never feeling good enough. I'm an Integrative Psychotherapist with over 10 years experience, including 5 in a specialist trauma service. You're welcome here.

I've spent over a decade supporting adults, the last five specialising in trauma and people-pleasing, drawing on hundreds of conversations with people who called themselves a 'people-pleaser' long before they ever thought to call it trauma.

Hi, I'm Ariana, a BACP fully qualified and accredited counsellor & psychotherapist.

You give a lot. You worry a lot. And somehow it's never quite enough.

There's often a loneliness that's hard to explain, even to yourself. A quiet, persistent sense that something is wrong with you. Maybe you're the one everyone leans on, the one whose own needs have a habit of staying invisible.

It shows up everywhere, not just in romantic relationships. The friendships where you give everything and still feel alone. The workplace where you overcommit, or brace for criticism before it arrives. And always the relationship with yourself, the inner voice that's never quite satisfied, often a quiet echo of what trauma first taught you to believe about who you are and what you deserve.

People-pleasing rarely arrives alone. It brings company: anxiety that won't switch off, avoiding confrontation at almost any cost, a constant low hum of not being quite good enough. Sometimes it means saying yes to plans you didn't have the energy for, because disappointing someone felt worse than disappointing yourself.

For many, it began somewhere specific, in childhood, in relationships that weren't quite safe enough to just be yourself. Some people had one clear, difficult experience. For others it was an accumulation. Both matter. Both are welcome here.

Something I've learned across more than a decade of clinical work is that trauma often doesn't live in the past. It lives in your sleep, your body, and your relationships.

Over the past five years I've worked as an integrative trauma therapist within a specialist trauma service, developing expertise in childhood trauma, people-pleasing, codependency, anxiety, and low self-worth. I've learned these patterns rarely look how people expect trauma to look. They look like over-explaining an opinion nobody challenged. They look like a version of yourself that learned, long ago, that it was easier to be needed than to be known. Before that, I spent five years working across counselling settings including the charity sector, with organisations such as Mind.

Getting started

If you're tired of putting yourself last, and ready to feel safe and comfortable enough to prioritise yourself, to notice what you want before working out what everyone else needs, even if it comes with guilt at first, I'd welcome you to get in touch. You don't need a clear starting point, just a sense that this might be the right space. I respond to all enquiries within one working day.

Initial session: £65

Regular sessions: £85 to £100 per session.

I work on a scale rather than a single fixed fee, because I believe it's important that cost isn't the reason someone doesn't reach out. When we first speak, we'll find the fee that's right for you.

I offer an initial session (60 minutes) this gives us enough time to get a sense of whether working together feels right. In therapy, the relationship between client and therapist is central to outcomes. Finding someone you feel genuinely comfortable with is where good therapy begins.

If I'm not the right fit, I'm happy to support you in finding a different therapist. There is no expectation to commit to regular sessions after the initial session.

I see the majority of my clients weekly, though fortnightly sessions are also available where needed. If you would like to meet fortnightly, I will discuss with you whether it's possible to meet weekly for the first six sessions, as this helps us establish our therapeutic relationship in the early stages of working together.

*Please note, all sessions are currently offered online*

Sessions available:

• Weekly therapy (50 minutes) - £95

I work online, offering trauma therapy and counselling to clients across London, including Camden, Islington, Marylebone, King's Cross and Primrose Hill.

You give a lot. You worry a lot. And somehow, relationships still feel harder than they should. I'm a specialist trauma therapist and counsellor with over 10+ years experience helping people with relationship anxiety, people pleasing, attachment & burnout.

To the outside world you may seem fine - warm, capable, always coping. But there's a cost to wearing that mask, and often it's a loneliness that's hard to explain, even to yourself.

Maybe you second-guess yourself constantly, wondering if you're too sensitive, too needy, or simply asking for too much. Maybe you're not even sure what you need anymore, only that the way things are doesn't feel sustainable.

Not just in romantic relationships. The friendships where you give everything and still feel alone. The family dynamics you can't seem to escape. The workplace where you over-explain, or brace for criticism.

And sometimes, the relationship with your own children, carrying patterns forward that were never yours to begin with.

The relationship with yourself, the inner voice that's never quite satisfied.

Something I've learned across more than a decade of clinical work, is that trauma often doesn't live in the past. It lives in your sleep, your body, and your relationships - in the quiet belief that you are somehow the problem. And very often, it shows up in anxiety, people pleasing, burnout, codependency, and patterns rooted in childhood trauma and relationships that were never quite safe enough.

Many of the people I work with don't arrive describing themselves as someone who's been through trauma. Because sometimes trauma is one clear event. Sometimes it's the accumulation of difficult experiences over time. You don't need the perfect label for it to matter.

Alongside trauma, I work with adults carrying what's harder to name, shame, self-doubt, a sense of never quite belonging, not knowing who you are outside of what others need from you, or the weight of relationships that have always felt complicated.

I've spent over a decade sitting with people through some of the most difficult moments of their lives, including five years as an integrative trauma therapist within a specialist counselling trauma service dedicated to supporting adults, developing deep expertise in complex trauma, childhood trauma, attachment difficulties, and relationship anxiety.

That experience has given me something that goes beyond clinical training - a genuine, deep understanding of how trauma shapes identity, relationships, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what we deserve.

I bring both professional and personal understanding to this work, alongside authentic human realness and clinical experience. As a neurodivergent therapist, I have a particular understanding of what it means to move through the world feeling subtly out of step. 

I believe the therapeutic relationship is the foundation from which real change becomes possible. I believe every person has the capacity to heal and to build the relationships they deserve. My role is to work alongside you, not to fix you, but to help you reconnect with the part of yourself that already knows the way.

Whatever brings you here, and however long you've been carrying it, change is possible. In over 10 years of this work, I've seen it happen, and it rarely looks the way people expect.

If something here has felt familiar, I'd welcome you to get in touch. You don't need a clear starting point, just a sense that this might be the right space.

Initial session: £65 for 50 minutes

Ongoing individual sessions: £95 for 50 minutes

I offer an initial session (50 minutes) this gives us enough time to get a sense of whether working together feels right. In trauma therapy, the relationship between client and therapist is central to outcomes. Finding someone you feel genuinely comfortable with is where good therapy begins.

If I'm not the right fit, I'm happy to support you in finding a different trauma therapist. There is no expectation to commit to regular sessions after the initial session.

I hold a limited number of concessionary places, because I recognise that circumstances beyond our control can affect all of us. Please mention this when you get in touch.

I respond to all enquiries within 1 working day.