About Dilshini
Dilshini Sandhu is a counsellor who brings a warm, heart-led presence to sessions. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression. Her manner is calm and collaborative, aimed at making it easier to talk about difficult things.
Dilshini combines client-centred ways of working with emotionally-focused ideas. That means conversations focus on what matters most to the person in front of her. She listens for how feelings, relationships and past experiences shape present struggles and responses.
Background and approach
Her background includes a Bachelor’s study in Music and Psychology and an MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience from King’s College London. She trained at the Metanoia Institute as a psychotherapeutic counsellor and she holds BACP accreditation. She is currently completing a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy, researching implicit bias and therapeutic relationships.
She has six years of experience supporting people through life transitions and relationship stresses. She also works with those affected by trauma and abuse, complex grief, chronic illness and caregiving strain. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, communication and codependency issues.
Dilshini is particularly mindful of cultural pressures and how they shape help-seeking. Her practice aims to be inclusive and sensitive to different lived experiences. Sessions are collaborative and tailored, with attention to practical changes and ways of understanding feelings and behaviour.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work. It focuses on listening deeply, reflecting back what matters to you and following your pace. This approach helps people who feel unsure about themselves or find it hard to trust a therapeutic relationship.Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how emotions drive interaction. It helps people notice and name feelings, and then try new ways of connecting and responding. That can be useful for those dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment fears or ongoing relational stress.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work and will be decided together. The therapist will talk through what you want to achieve, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you go. It is a collaborative process aimed at finding what helps you feel more steady and understood.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit deeper conversations where visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or steady support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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