About Sharmi
Sharmi Gowri-Kriszyk is a counsellor with 21 years' experience supporting people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, addictions, and mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar. She also helps with parenting strain, family and intimacy-related problems, sleep and eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, and ADHD. She speaks English, Danish and Tamil and works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Gowri-Kriszyk uses a trauma-informed approach that pays attention to how past harms shape current reactions.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be calm and steady so people can talk about triggers and difficult memories without feeling rushed. She draws on methods that attend to emotions, relationships and practical coping skills. Her clinical work includes attachment-based ways of understanding relationships, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy for emotion regulation.
She also uses eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing for processing traumatic memories when appropriate. The focus is on helping people notice patterns and build skills that fit their daily life. Sharmi holds NCPS credentialing as an NCPS Therapist - Accredited Member (MNCPS Accred), and she completed doctoral-level study in psychology and counselling/psychotherapy.
Her background emphasises trauma, attachment and therapeutic parenting, and she has undertaken a wide range of additional trauma training. She invites people who have had previous therapy but still feel stuck to explore what might be missing. The process begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling, so sessions can be arranged around the person’s commitments.
How these approaches can work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect current patterns. It helps people understand trust, closeness and triggers in relationships and can make everyday interactions feel clearer and safer. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding; the counsellor follows the person’s lead and helps them find their own solutions through supportive dialogue. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and teaches practical ways to test and change them, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, past therapy, and what feels most useful, then recommend or combine methods that match the person’s needs and preferences. This is a collaborative process and can change over time as progress is made.
Please confirm which session formats are offered before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, for example by cutting travel time, allowing shorter check-ins between commitments, or offering options when camera use is difficult. Many people find that these approaches translate well to remote sessions, letting them practise skills and process memories while keeping therapy manageable alongside everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Danish, Tamil
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