About Aakansha
Aakansha Sharma is a counsellor with nine years of practical experience. She works from a calm, patient manner and listens closely to help people talk through what is worrying them. She uses a mix of approaches to help clients make small, steady changes that improve daily life.
Aakansha draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, helping people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. She also uses a client-centred style that focuses on a person’s strengths.
Background and approach
These methods are adapted to each person’s comfort and situation. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, followed by a Master in Guidance and Counselling from James Cook University, Singapore.
She carried out placements and internships in counselling settings while training, and has worked in services addressing addiction and related issues. Aakansha has run drug intervention workshops and contributed to youth-focused programmes in collaboration with community organisations. She has experience supporting people affected by trauma, domestic violence, substance misuse and related difficulties.
She completed a MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at King’s College London in 2019 and is a BACP member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Aakansha offers sessions in English and Hindi and works with people from a range of backgrounds.
People often come to her for help with anxiety, depression, stress, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, phobias, addictions, ADHD and coping with life changes. She aims to create a practical plan and pace the work to each person’s needs.
How Aakansha uses practical approaches in online therapy
Aakansha frequently uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try out new ways of thinking and acting. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, phobias and many everyday problems because it focuses on clear steps and small experiments.She also works in a client-centred way, which means sessions focus on each person’s strengths and priorities. This approach helps people feel listened to and shapes the goals and pace of the work together. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is used when skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal routines are needed; it teaches practical skills for handling distress and improving relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Aakansha will talk through options with each person and agree a plan based on their needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative decision-making can change as progress is made and new issues come up.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls need less bandwidth, live chat suits brief check-ins and messaging can work for ongoing, flexible support. These options make it easier to book therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and to keep continuity when circumstances change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi
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