Lavanniya Langa
Skilful, compassionate counselling for relationships and life changes
About Lavanniya
Lavanniya Langa uses a person-centred approach to help people find steadier ground. She combines empathic listening with practical tools to address stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties and trauma. Her work is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel understood and able to move forward.
With 14 years of experience in the United Kingdom, she draws on several therapeutic styles to suit different needs. She often uses Attachment-Based ideas to look at how past bonds affect current relationships.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new responses. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps when emotions feel overwhelming in close relationships. Clients have come for help with grief, self-esteem, addictions, intimacy concerns and the strain of life changes.
She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, eating and sleeping problems, chronic illness, caregiving pressures and career worries. Additional focuses include abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues and neurodiversity concerns such as autism and Asperger Syndrome. Sessions are offered in English and Tamil and are open to people in the UK and internationally.
Lavanniya works with people facing a wide range of challenges, including LGBT concerns, anger management and coping after disasters. She aims to tailor the pace and tools to each person’s situation. Her approach is respectful and sensitive.
She will listen first, then agree goals together. Practical steps and small changes are emphasised so progress can be noticed between sessions.
What Lavanniya works with
How Lavanniya works
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Sessions & fees
How attachment, person-centred and CBT work online
Lavanniya blends Attachment-Based, Client-Centred and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approaches when working remotely. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and helps people understand patterns that keep repeating. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises being listened to without judgement and building goals together at a comfortable pace. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers practical techniques to notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behaviour changes to break negative cycles.Choosing the right approach is a shared task. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Plans are adjusted as therapy progresses so methods match the respondent's needs and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when helpful, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel commitments and to maintain continuity when schedules change.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Tamil
