Adama Giquina , BACP

Adama Giquina is a Person-Centred Integrative counsellor who brings five years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, and anger. She trained at Inspire Counselling / Barnabas Counselling and Training and qualified in 2020 after completing the TC - L4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling. Following qualification she progressed from student membership to full membership with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and works in line with the BACP Ethical Framework to guide ethical and professional practice.

Adama works sessionally at Survivors in Transition, where she completed her placement five years ago and continues to contribute. Her approach focuses on helping clients make sense of their experiences and recognising how the brain can develop coping responses to difficult events. She offers a calm, non-judgemental environment and uses grounding techniques and awareness exercises in the here-and-now to support clients in reducing hyper arousal and learning emotion regulation skills.

She aims to build trust through attentive listening, empathy, and an accepting attitude, meeting each person where they are. Adama tailors dialogue and any agreed plan to the individual, and she has experience working with clients from diverse cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, and sexual identities. She also has additional focus on immigration-related concerns, multicultural issues, sexual assault and abuse, and young adult challenges, and seeks to guide clients toward greater self-awareness and positive change.