About Poonam
Poonam Sejpal is a BACP counsellor with 11 years of experience. She offers a calm, respectful space for people dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, ADHD and related concerns. She aims to be warm and non-judgemental so people can speak openly and start to make changes.
She combines approaches rather than using a single method. Sessions often draw on cognitive-behavioural ideas to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Attachment-based and psychodynamic perspectives help look at how past relationships shape current reactions. Poonam adapts what happens in sessions to each person. Conversations are collaborative and paced to match what feels safe.
Practical skills and reflective work are mixed depending on whether someone needs short-term relief or deeper exploration. The therapist has worked with a broad range of concerns across 11 years, including trauma and abuse, grief, anger, intimacy-related issues and body image struggles. She also supports people with career stresses, coaching needs and coping with life changes.
People can expect a straightforward, empathetic approach that tries to avoid labels and focus on individual needs. Sessions are intended to help people understand patterns, practise different responses and build coping strategies that fit day-to-day life.
Approaches that guide online work
Poonam often uses attachment-based ideas alongside cognitive-behavioural techniques. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current ways of relating and can help with intimacy issues, commitment worries and patterns of trust. Cognitive-behavioural work focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and practising new behaviours to reduce anxiety and low mood.The right approach is usually decided together. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has helped before and how you prefer to work. That collaborative process shapes whether sessions lean more towards reflective exploration or practical skill building.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy fit everyday life. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or not being on camera helps. Live chat or messaging suits shorter check-ins, written reflection or when a flexible schedule is needed.
These options let people keep continuity of care even when travel or timing is difficult, and they make it simpler to fit therapy around work or family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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