Urszula Tondel

I currently offer online therapy sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, as well as Fridays between 9am and 2pm.

Loneliness, disconnection, the sense of not quite belonging - these experiences rarely arrive as a single event. They accumulate quietly over time, shaped by who we are, where we come from, and the relationships that have made us.

Twenty years in education, including leadership, gave me something I carry into every session: the ability to enter someone else's world without imposing my own map onto it. I learned early that people don't need to be redirected. They need to be heard so precisely that they can begin to hear themselves.

I don't fade into the background. I bring myself into the room - while remaining entirely focused on you.

My work is person-centred and relational. I am particularly interested in the patterns people develop to survive emotionally - over-responsibility, withdrawal, the need to hold everything together for others. These patterns often made sense once. Over time, they can become the very thing that holds us back.

I work with loneliness and disconnection, trauma, identity, and intergenerational experience - the ways that emotional histories move quietly through families and shape how we relate to ourselves and others. I work often with people navigating migration, cultural transition, or the cost of not quite fitting.

Therapy with me is not about advice or quick solutions. It is a space to understand yourself more honestly, and to begin relating to your experience differently.

Before we begin, I offer a free thirty-minute initial conversation - a chance to get a sense of one another, ask any questions, and see whether working together feels right. 

Sessions are fifty minutes and can be short or long term depending on what you need.