Shushanik Gasparyan, BACP

Shushanik Gasparyan is a UK-based counsellor with eight years of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma and many life changes. She offers a calm, supportive and non-judgmental space for individuals who want to explore feelings or memories they may have avoided, whether those are long-standing patterns or recent painful events. Shushanik draws on an integrative approach, combining Person-Centred methods with Gestalt and Transactional Analysis techniques to tailor sessions to each person's needs. She also lists BACP among her credentials - BACP is a recognised professional association for counsellors and psychotherapists in the United Kingdom.

Her background includes agency work supporting both adults and children and collaboration with international organisations such as Save the Children and UNICEF on projects addressing child abuse. That experience contributes to a broad understanding of issues including depression, self-esteem, relationship difficulties, grief, addictions and trauma-related concerns. She works with individuals at different stages of change and can offer short-term and longer-term support depending on what a person needs.

Shushanik is able to work in English and Armenian and accepts international clients. She approaches therapy as a partnership - helping people discover new ways of thinking and feeling while aiming to restore balance and wellbeing. She welcomes the opportunity to get to know clients and to support them through growth and change.

Integrative Approaches and Online Therapy

Shushanik uses client-centred work to create a respectful and empathetic space where the person s own goals guide the pace and focus of therapy - this approach helps with issues like low self-esteem, life transitions and general anxiety by prioritising the client's perspective. Narrative therapy is used to explore the stories people tell about themselves and to identify alternative, more empowering ways to understand difficult experiences, which can be useful for trauma, relationship difficulties and feelings of emptiness. Psychodynamic therapy examines patterns from past relationships and internal emotional dynamics to help people understand recurring difficulties such as attachment problems or longstanding relational patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Shushanik works collaboratively with clients to identify which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences, and she adapts the work over time as those needs change. Clients are invited to be active partners in shaping their therapy.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, on the phone, via live chat or through text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life or differing time zones. Working with registered professionals in this way makes therapy more accessible and allows continuity of care for people living in different locations or with busy schedules.