Aakansha Sharma
Practical, patient counsellor focusing on healing
About Aakansha
Aakansha Sharma is a counsellor with nine years of professional experience. She brings a calm and patient manner to sessions and listens closely to what people say. Aakansha speaks English and Hindi and holds BACP registration with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
She uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression and grief. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviours.
Background and approach
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on a person’s strengths and choices rather than imposing solutions. Aakansha also works with trauma and addiction concerns and uses Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, when appropriate. She draws on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or DBT skills to help with emotion regulation and impulsivity.
Mindfulness techniques are offered to build awareness and calm in daily life. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Masters in Guidance and Counselling from James Cook University, Singapore. She completed a MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at King’s College London in 2019.
Aakansha has delivered workshops and clinical work related to substance misuse and trauma. In sessions she aims to be respectful and practical. Conversations focus on clear goals and steps to try between meetings.
The pace is set by the person seeking help and adjustments are made as needed. To begin, people answer a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that suit them.
What Aakansha works with
How Aakansha works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centred Therapy emphasises the person’s own resources and choices; the counsellor offers a warm, non-judgemental space and helps people identify strengths and next steps. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful habits, which can help with anxiety, depression and stress. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, is used to work with distressing memories and trauma by combining focused attention with guided processing.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk through options and tailor methods to the person’s goals and preferences. Decisions are shared so the person knows why an approach is being tried and what to expect from it.
Online sessions can be arranged by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Hindi
