Valentina Mengarelli, BACP

Valentina Mengarelli is a counsellor registered with the BACP and has five years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, sleep problems, low self-esteem and depression. She aims to create a respectful, sensitive and compassionate space for people to talk through what matters to them.

Her work is practical and tailored. Sessions centre on the client’s priorities and move at a pace that feels manageable. Valentina listens first, then helps map small steps that can reduce daily strain and improve coping. She uses conversational methods that suit the person sitting in front of her.

Valentina draws on client-centred principles to keep the person’s own goals at the heart of therapy. She also uses mindfulness techniques to help with stress, sleep and grounding in difficult moments. These approaches aim to build awareness and self-directed coping skills rather than offering quick fixes.

People bring a wide range of issues to her, including relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, grief from separation or divorce, trauma and abuse, addictions, anger and career stress. She also supports work on attachment, abandonment and body image issues, and on care-related stress.

Valentina offers sessions in English, Spanish and Italian, and sees people in the United Kingdom as well as international clients. To start, she asks people to complete a brief matching questionnaire so sessions can be scheduled according to her availability.

How client-centred and mindfulness work online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and helping each person discover their own direction. In practice this means sessions are guided by the client’s concerns and the counsellor reflects back what they hear to help clarify priorities and choices.

Mindfulness Therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress, aid sleep and help when emotions feel overwhelming. These short exercises can be practised during sessions and between meetings to build steady coping skills.

Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. The counsellor will talk through options, try different exercises and adapt the work to the client's goals and preferences. It is common to combine listening-focused work with brief mindfulness practices so people can notice what helps them most.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for a quicker check-in during a lunch break or after work. It can also make it simpler to use brief guided exercises together during a meeting and then practise them at home between sessions.