About Shilpa
Shilpa Kurakula is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low mood and life changes. She works with issues such as grief, parenting pressures, self-esteem struggles, addiction, relationship and family concerns. Shilpa also supports people dealing with trauma, anger, eating-related problems and ADHD-related challenges.
She draws on an integrative background that includes client-centred, psychodynamic and solution-focused ways of working. That means sessions centre on the person in front of her, while also looking at past patterns and practical steps for change.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to identify what has caused a difficulty, what the person wants to change, and small, realistic options to try. Shilpa holds an Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling and is a BACP member. She has nine years of experience in the field.
Her style is straightforward and calm, with an emphasis on listening first and planning next steps together. Therapy typically involves a mix of talking and practical tasks. Shilpa adapts sessions to each person’s needs and priorities.
People can expect clear, simple goals and a focus on small, manageable progress. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. Appointments use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and booking begins by completing a short matching questionnaire.
How Shilpa’s approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change, which is useful for anxiety, low mood and self-esteem concerns.Psychodynamic work looks at patterns that come from earlier life experiences and how these affect current relationships and emotions. This approach can help when worries repeat over time or when problems link to family of origin or abandonment issues.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about needs, goals and preferences and together try different ways of working until something fits. That collaborative process is ongoing rather than fixed at the first session.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel and to keep the work going from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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