Sarvin Afarinesh, BACP

Sarvin Afarinesh offers a warm, engaging, and culturally aware approach to therapy that helps people reconnect with themselves and identify what they need to live a more fulfilling life. She works as an integrative and intuitive psychotherapist, combining psychodynamic, humanistic, existential and body-oriented methods to explore how thoughts, feelings, bodily experience and behaviour interact. This exploration focuses on relationships - both with self and with others - as well as on personal values, needs and the patterns that keep someone feeling stuck.

In sessions she brings curiosity, compassion and creativity, inviting techniques such as drawing, writing, working with objects or guided imagination when these methods suit a client. Her practice attends to identity and difference, including cultural background, and she has a particular interest in issues of identity, intimacy and relationship dynamics. Sarvin supports people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, career concerns, ADHD and a wide range of emotional and life difficulties.

She has 11 years of clinical experience and works with individuals internationally. Sarvin is a BACP registered member - BACP stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and is also accredited by UKCP. She offers online sessions by video or voice call and aims to help clients understand themselves more fully and feel empowered to make changes that matter to them.

Therapeutic Approaches and Remote Support

Sarvin draws on client-centered therapy to place the person at the heart of the work - this approach prioritises empathy, active listening and the client’s own goals, and it is helpful for building self-understanding and addressing issues like low self-esteem, relationship difficulties and life transitions.

She also integrates psychodynamic therapy, which explores how past experiences, early attachments and unconscious patterns influence current feelings and behaviour; this approach can be useful for longstanding relationship patterns, identity concerns and repeated emotional difficulties.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sarvin works with each client to identify which methods fit their needs, preferences and goals, and she adapts her style as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant and effective.

Online therapy with Sarvin is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, to access support from different locations and to choose the format that feels most comfortable. These options support continuity of care and flexibility while allowing registered professionals to offer consistent therapeutic support.