Hana Mandikova

Hana Mandikova is a BACP-registered counsellor who helps people facing anger, anxiety, stress and trauma. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, addiction, grief, low self-esteem and life changes. Her style is warm and accepting, aimed at making people feel heard and understood from the first session.

Hana draws on five years of professional practice alongside many additional years of counselling in schools, workplaces and voluntary settings. She focuses on what is happening in the present while also exploring past experiences that still affect daily life. This helps people see patterns, especially around family relationships and attachment, that may be keeping problems alive.

Her main approaches include client-centred work that places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions, mindfulness techniques to manage intense feelings, and trauma-focused methods when past events need careful attention. Sessions move at the client’s pace and aim to make difficult memories or emotions easier to handle.

Hana describes her room as non-judgemental and accepting. She pays attention to how childhood and earlier relationships shape current coping and behaviour. That practical focus is designed to help people make small, realistic changes that reduce anger and improve daily life.

She also has experience offering support around relationship breakdown, commitment issues, eating and substance concerns, immigration-related stress and compassion fatigue. People who book a session are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire before arranging a first appointment.

How her approaches shape online therapy

Hana uses client-centred work to keep the focus on the person’s experience and priorities. This approach means sessions centre on what matters most to the client and what feels most helpful right now.

She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help manage strong feelings and physical reactions. These are simple practices that teach slow breathing, noticing sensations, and bringing attention back to the present when anger or anxiety flare up.

Trauma-focused work is used when past events continue to affect day-to-day life. That work proceeds carefully and at a pace decided by the client, with an emphasis on making memories easier to tolerate and reducing their impact on current relationships and mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the first conversations. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person’s goals, needs and preferences rather than imposing a single model.

The practical benefits of online therapy include easier fitting of appointments into busy schedules and shorter check-ins between longer work or family commitments. Session options are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current session formats before booking to make sure they suit your routine and technical setup.