Aakansha Sharma, BACP

Aakansha Sharma is a compassionate, patient therapist with a strong commitment to helping people navigate difficult life experiences. She brings nearly a decade of professional experience to her practice and is known for her empathetic listening, warmth, and thoughtful guidance. Trained in both assessment and therapeutic intervention, she uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and develop more constructive ways of feeling and acting. She also draws on a client-centered approach to highlight each person’s strengths and support self-directed growth, and she incorporates EMDR, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and mindfulness techniques when appropriate and welcomed by the client.

Aakansha’s clinical background includes roles supporting people affected by addiction, trauma, domestic violence and a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties. From 2013 to 2015 she worked at the Centre for Psychotherapy, where she led drug intervention workshops at Changi Prison and Changi Women’s Prison and ran youth-focused programmes in partnership with social services and narcotics agencies. She completed an internship at NuLife Care and Counselling Services in 2016, working with clients aged from childhood through adulthood on issues such as childhood trauma, substance misuse and family conflict. Seeking deeper expertise with younger clients, she joined Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes in 2017 and completed an MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at King’s College London in 2019.

Aakansha holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University at Buffalo and a Masters in Guidance and Counselling from James Cook University, Singapore. She is a registered member (MBACP) of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and offers support for a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, ADHD and challenges related to family dynamics. She provides therapy in English and Hindi and accepts clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Therapeutic approaches and online options

Aakansha commonly uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help people identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours; this approach is practical and goal-oriented and is often used for anxiety, depression and stress-related problems. She also works from a client-centered perspective, offering a supportive, non-directive space that helps people explore their strengths, values and personal goals and is useful for relationship issues, self-esteem and life transitions. When trauma is a focus, she may integrate Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) to reduce the intensity of distressing memories and support adaptive processing.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Aakansha discusses options with each person, considers the presenting concerns and preferences, and adjusts methods over time so therapy fits the client’s needs and goals.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility for those juggling work, family or geographical distance. Sessions by video or phone can mirror an in-person conversation, while live chat and text-based messaging provide accessible ways to process emotions between sessions or for people who prefer written communication. Registered professionals can tailor these options to create a schedule and format that support steady progress and ongoing engagement.