Rusne Fokiene

Rusne Fokiene is a BACP counsellor with six years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, self-esteem and coping with life changes, and includes life purpose among her focus areas. She offers sessions in English and Lithuanian and previously worked in the voluntary sector supporting people with issues such as substance misuse, depression and trauma.

Her style is integrative and experiential. She mixes practical talking work with mindfulness and attention to physical sensations. Sessions often slow the pace to notice how feelings show up in the body, and that helps people make different choices in everyday life.

Rusne draws on core process ideas alongside creative methods. That means she helps people look at early life patterns and how those shape current beliefs and behaviours. She explores communication problems, attachment and abandonment concerns, and issues like guilt, shame and self-worth in straightforward conversations.

She also works with long-term challenges such as chronic pain, illness and disability, and life stages like midlife changes. Work can include practising new ways of relating, experimenting with self-compassion, and building coping skills for ongoing stressors.

Sessions are reviewed regularly so goals stay relevant. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session. Rusne does not accept international clients and uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

Her background in voluntary-sector counselling informs a practical, down-to-earth approach. The emphasis is on noticing patterns, trying small changes, and developing skills that can be used after therapy ends.

How therapeutic methods translate to online sessions

Rusne works in an integrative, experiential way that uses mindfulness and core process ideas. Mindfulness practice involves simple attention exercises and noticing bodily sensations to reduce reactivity and clarify what matters. It can help with anxiety, stress and making decisions about next steps.

Core process approaches look at early patterns and how they affect current choices. That work often involves gentle reflection on past experiences and practical experiments to try new behaviours. It is useful for attachment issues, relationship difficulties and feelings like guilt or shame.

Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Rusne aims to assess needs, goals and preferences with the client and then decide which techniques to use. This is a collaborative process and techniques are reviewed as therapy progresses.

Please confirm which session formats are currently available before booking, as the biography does not list specific supported formats. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They also allow people to work with a registered professional from their local area without changing day-to-day routines.