About Aakansha
Aakansha Sharma is a counsellor with nine years' experience who draws on a mix of talking therapies to help people manage anxiety and stress. She trained in psychology and later completed a Masters in Guidance and Counselling, followed by a MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. She is a BACP member, which is recorded as BACP.
Her sessions are calm and patient. She listens well and helps people name what is worrying them.
Background and approach
She uses simple, practical techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Work can include short exercises between sessions. Aakansha often uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice negative thought patterns and replace them with more helpful ones.
She also uses a person-centred approach to highlight individual strengths and values. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is available when trauma memories need more focused work. Her background includes counselling in community and prison settings and teaching drug intervention workshops.
She has experience with addiction, trauma, domestic violence, and custody-related issues. That practical work shaped a straightforward style that aims to make progress in everyday life. Sessions may cover relationships, grief, depression, ADHD, self-esteem and career stress.
She also addresses attachment and intimacy concerns, codependency and issues around isolation and impulsivity. People can expect a respectful, non-judgemental space to talk through next steps. Aakansha works in English and Hindi and offers a range of online session formats to suit different needs.
She helps people find approaches that fit their goals and life circumstances.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Aakansha uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people spot and change negative thoughts and behaviours. CBT focuses on practical steps and short exercises that suit video or phone sessions and can help with anxiety, depression and stress.She also works in a person-centred way, which means she prioritises what matters to the client and helps them identify strengths. This approach is collaborative and fits well with regular check-ins by chat or messaging. For trauma-related concerns she offers Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing which involves focused work on distressing memories and can be adapted for online video sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and choose methods together based on goals, comfort and how someone prefers to communicate. That choice is revisited as progress is made.
Online sessions give flexibility in how people meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions suit those with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to use video, and live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
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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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi
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