Monika - Counsellor, Psychotherapist & CBT Therapist
At a Glance
- Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
- Member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
- MSc in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Counselling · Diploma in Counselling (Level 4)
- Individual counselling · EAP counselling · Organisational referrals
- CBT and integrative counselling
- Sessions available in English and Polish
- Specialist experience: anxiety · OCD · trauma · depression · neurodivergence
- Face-to-face in central Cambridge · Online and telephone UK-wide
- Adults (18+) · Young people (14+) · Older adults · EAP clients
- £65 per session
- Daytime and evenings
- Free 15-minute consultation — no commitment, no pressure
CBT Therapist and Counsellor in Cambridge — About Monika
Finding the right therapist involves more than credentials — it involves finding someone who can genuinely meet you where you are. For some people, that means being able to speak in their first language. For others, it means working with someone whose training is specifically grounded in the approach that research suggests is most effective for what they are experiencing.
Monika is a qualified CBT therapist and counsellor based in central Cambridge, offering face-to-face sessions locally and online and telephone counselling across the UK. She holds an MSc in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Counselling and a Diploma in Counselling (Level 4). She is a registered Member of both the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) — the specialist CBT register, which holds practitioners to a higher standard of CBT training and practice.
Monika is fully bilingual in English and Polish, and offers counselling sessions in either language. For Polish-speaking clients, this means being able to explore difficult experiences in the language in which they are most fully themselves — without the additional barrier of working through a second language.
Background & Experience
Monika’s MSc-level training in CBT and Counselling gives her a depth of academic and clinical grounding that goes beyond the standard diploma level held by most CBT practitioners. Her BABCP registration reflects this — BABCP is the specialist professional body for CBT in the UK, and its accreditation requirements are more stringent than general counselling registration in relation to CBT practice specifically.
Her professional background spans organisational settings and private practice — a combination that has given her exposure to a wide range of presentations and clinical contexts. She works with adults and young people from the age of 14, and brings a thoughtful, adaptive approach to the developmental and relational dimensions of working with younger clients.
Monika has clinical experience working with neurodivergent clients — including those with autism and ADHD — and adapts her approach to different processing styles, communication preferences, and the particular ways that anxiety, OCD, and depression can present in neurodivergent individuals. She maintains regular professional supervision and is committed to ongoing professional development.
Therapeutic Approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT is Monika’s primary therapeutic approach — and the one in which her training is deepest. CBT explores the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours: how the way we interpret events shapes how we feel about them, and how those feelings drive what we do. By identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and developing more constructive ways of responding, CBT provides practical, evidence-based tools for managing anxiety, depression, OCD, and a range of other presentations. Monika’s MSc and BABCP registration signal a particularly high standard of CBT practice. CBT therapist Cambridge and online.
Integrative Counselling
Alongside her CBT practice, Monika draws on an integrative counselling foundation — combining elements from different therapeutic traditions according to each individual’s needs. This allows her to bring depth and relational attunement alongside the more structured, skills-focused elements of CBT. Integrative counsellor Cambridge and online Cambridgeshire.
Polish-Language Counselling
Monika offers counselling sessions fully in Polish as well as English. She is bilingual and works with equal fluency in both languages — this is not a translation service but a genuinely bilingual practice.
For Polish-speaking clients in Cambridge and across the UK, this can make a meaningful difference. Processing difficult emotions, trauma, or anxiety in a second language carries a cognitive load that can make therapy less accessible and less deep. Being able to work in Polish — with a therapist who understands the cultural context as well as the language — removes that barrier entirely. Polish counsellor Cambridge · Polish CBT therapist UK · counselling in Polish online.
Areas of Focus
Monika offers face-to-face CBT and counselling in Cambridge, and online and telephone counselling across the UK. The following are areas she works with regularly and has specific experience in.
Anxiety and OCD
Anxiety counselling and OCD therapy in Cambridge with Monika — drawing on her MSc-level CBT training and BABCP registration. She works with generalised anxiety, social anxiety, health anxiety, OCD, panic attacks, phobias, and SAD. CBT therapist Cambridge for anxiety and OCD. Online CBT for anxiety Cambridgeshire.
Depression and low mood
Depression counselling in Cambridge with Monika — working with persistent low mood, loss of motivation, and the particular patterns of thinking that maintain depression, using CBT and integrative approaches depending on what is most useful.
Trauma and abuse
Trauma counselling Cambridge and online — working with individuals navigating the effects of trauma, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, and domestic violence. Monika’s integrative foundation allows her to work at the pace that feels right for each individual.
Self-esteem, burnout and relationships
Self-esteem counselling, burnout counselling, and relationship counselling in Cambridge and online — exploring the patterns of thinking and relating that affect confidence, resilience, and connection with others.
Neurodivergent-affirming counselling
Monika has clinical experience working with neurodivergent clients — including those with autism and ADHD. Her CBT background is particularly relevant here: CBT can be highly effective for the anxiety, low mood, and self-esteem difficulties that often accompany neurodivergent experience, when adapted thoughtfully to individual processing styles. Autism counsellor Cambridge · ADHD counsellor Cambridgeshire.
Sessions with Monika
Monika offers face-to-face sessions in central Cambridge and online and telephone counselling to adults and young people across the UK. Sessions are available during the day and in the evenings.
Sessions are available in English or Polish. Monika works with adults, young people aged 14 and above, and older adults. She supports those referred through EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) arrangements and one-off organisational referrals.
Sessions are 50 minutes. Sessions are confidential. There are limited circumstances in which this may need to change — for example, if there is a serious risk of harm to you or others. Monika will explain these clearly before any work begins.
Location — Cambridge
Monika offers face-to-face counselling and CBT in central Cambridge, and online and telephone counselling to individuals across the UK. If you are based in or near Cambridge, the following gives you a sense of how long it typically takes to travel there.
| Cambourne | 15 mins |
| Ely | 20 mins |
| Huntingdon | 20 mins |
| Newmarket | 20 mins |
| St Ives | 20 mins |
| Soham | 20 mins |
| Royston | 20 mins |
| St Neots | 25 mins |
| Saffron Walden | 25 mins |
| Haverhill | 25 mins |
Journey times show how long it takes to reach central Cambridge by the fastest available transport. Online and telephone counselling is available to anyone across the UK — including Polish-speaking clients anywhere in England.
Monika’s Cambridge practice is particularly convenient for clients based in Ely, Huntingdon, and St Neots. English and Polish-language counselling is available online to anyone in the UK.
Fees
- Individual sessions: £65 per session
As part of Hope Therapy’s team of 90+ qualified counsellors, Monika is matched to clients where there is a strong therapeutic fit. CBT and counselling in Cambridge with Hope Therapy starts from £65 — significantly more accessible than many comparable private CBT practitioners in Cambridgeshire.
Book a Free Consultation
If you are looking for a CBT therapist or counsellor in Cambridge, or would like to access CBT or counselling in Polish from anywhere in the UK, a free 15-minute consultation is a good place to start. There is no commitment and no pressure.
Hope Therapy’s team is also available by phone 24 hours a day if you would prefer to speak to someone before booking.
Book your free consultation: https://calendly.com/hopetherapy/15-minute-consultation
More Info
| Qualifications | MSc in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Counselling, Diploma in Counselling (Level 4) |
| Professional membership | Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) |
| NCPS | Hope Therapy & Counselling Services is an Organisational Member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) |
| Services | Individual counselling · EAP counselling · Organisational referrals |
| Therapeutic approach | Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) · Integrative counselling |
| Languages | English · Polish |
| Session format | Face-to-face (central Cambridge) · Online · Telephone |
| Session length | 50 minutes |
| Availability | Daytime · Evenings |
| Fee | £65 per session |
| Venue | Central Cambridge |
| Client groups | Adults (18+) · Young people (14+) · Older adults · EAP · Organisations |
| Last reviewed | April 2026 |
| Booking | https://calendly.com/hopetherapy/15-minute-consultation |
Further Areas Monika Works With
- Abuse counselling Cambridge and online
- ADHD counselling Cambridge and Cambridgeshire
- Affairs and betrayals — counselling online
- Anger management counselling Cambridge and online
- Anxiety counselling Cambridge and Cambridgeshire
- Asperger’s syndrome — counselling Cambridge and online
- Autism counselling Cambridge and Cambridgeshire
- Bereavement counselling Cambridge and online
- Burnout counselling Cambridge and online
- Carer support counselling online
- CBT therapist Cambridge and Cambridgeshire
- Child-related issues counselling online
- Depression counselling Cambridge and Cambridgeshire
- Disabilities — counselling online
- Discrimination — counselling online
- Domestic abuse counselling Cambridge and online
- EAP counselling Cambridge and Cambridgeshire
- Emotional abuse counselling online
- Family issues counselling online
- Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) counselling online
- Grief counselling Cambridge and online
- Health anxiety counselling online
- Infertility counselling online
- Learning difficulties — counselling online
- Life transitions counselling Cambridge and online
- Loneliness counselling online
- Low self-confidence counselling online
- Low self-esteem counselling Cambridge and online
- OCD counselling Cambridge and Cambridgeshire
- Panic attacks counselling Cambridge and online
- Phobia counselling online
- Physical abuse counselling online
- Polish counsellor Cambridge and online UK
- Polish CBT therapist online UK
- Postnatal depression counselling online
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) counselling online
- Pregnancy and birth counselling online
- Relationship counselling Cambridge and online
- SAD — seasonal affective disorder counselling online
- Self-esteem counselling Cambridge and online
- Separation and divorce counselling online
- Sexual abuse counselling online
- Social anxiety counselling Cambridge and online
- Stress counselling Cambridge and Cambridgeshire
- Trauma counselling Cambridge and Cambridgeshire
- Work-related stress counselling online Cambridgeshire
- Young carers — counselling online
- Young people counselling 14+ Cambridge and online
- Listing ID: 929
- Type of Support: CBT Counselling, Counselling
- Types of Counselling: Young People (12 - 18), Adults (18+)
- Type of Session: In Person, Online (Via Zoom & Skype), Phone
- Availability: Daytime, Evening