Poonam Sejpal
Warm counsellor focusing on relationships and trauma
About Poonam
Poonam Sejpal helps people who are struggling with relationships, anxiety, low self-esteem and life changes. She is a counsellor with BACP accreditation and brings 11 years of practice to each conversation. Her manner is warm and direct, aimed at helping clients feel heard and understood quickly.
Poonam uses straightforward talking and practical exercises to reduce overwhelming feelings. She blends ideas from cognitive behavioural therapy with psychodynamic thinking and narrative work to tackle current problems and the stories people tell about themselves.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around what the client needs, not a fixed agenda. She works with issues such as trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, anger and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, career pressures and coping after separation.
Poonam pays attention to attachment and how past relationships affect present ones. Her practice avoids labels that shame people. Instead she aims to build trust so clients can say hard things and try new behaviours.
That can mean learning different ways to communicate, managing stress day to day, or reworking negative self-talk. Poonam offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and messaging as ways to meet. She accepts clients internationally and holds sessions in English.
To begin she asks a few questions to match needs and then helps plan the first appointment.
What Poonam works with
How Poonam works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that suit online sessions
Poonam often uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. This approach helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and what they might try instead.She also draws on client-centred therapy, which focuses on listening closely and following the client's pace. That method is useful for people who need a calm space to make sense of difficult feelings and build self-trust.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then try methods that fit the client's needs. Decisions about style and pacing are made collaboratively as sessions progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging suit people who prefer typed conversation or need ongoing contact between calls. These options can make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel commitments.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
