Adama Giquina, BACP

Adama Giquina is a person-centred integrative counsellor who qualified in 2020 with a TC - L4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling from Inspire Counselling / Barnabas Counselling and Training. She completed BACP accreditation and moved from a student member to a full member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK - and follows its ethical framework in her practice.

Adama works as a sessional counsellor at Survivors in Transition, where she completed her placement five years ago and has continued to work since. Her clinical work focuses on helping people make sense of their experiences and on recognising how the mind adapts to cope with difficult events. She supports clients in drawing connections between past events and current patterns, and uses grounding techniques and awareness exercises to address hyper arousal and help with emotional regulation.

Known for a calm, empathic style, Adama offers a non-judgemental space where clients can explore stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, anger, and related concerns. She welcomes clients from diverse cultural, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds and works with differences in gender expression and sexuality. Adama tailors dialogue and treatment plans to each person, guiding people toward greater self-awareness, practical coping skills, and the positive changes they want to make. She also works with immigration and multicultural concerns, sexual assault and abuse, and young adult issues, and is accepting of new clients who are ready to begin the therapeutic process.