About Lavanniya
Lavanniya Langa is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who uses a person-centred approach to help people manage anxiety, stress and life changes. She brings 14 years of professional experience and works with a broad range of concerns including relationships, trauma, depression and addiction. She speaks English and Tamil and aims to make starting therapy straightforward for newcomers.
Her way of working focuses on understanding each person's story and priorities.
Background and approach
She adapts conversations and plans to fit what a person needs in the moment. Sessions tend to be practical and down-to-earth, with attention to feelings and everyday coping skills. Lavanniya draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new ways of coping. Emotionally-focused elements help when people want to work on closeness and emotional expression. She has supported people through grief, parenting strain, body image and identity issues, and the long-term effects of trauma and abuse.
She also offers help for sleeping and eating problems, chronic illness or pain, and work-related stress. Her background includes work with those dealing with abandonment and adoption-related concerns. Lavanniya describes her role as collaborative.
She listens, offers practical tools, and reviews progress together. To begin, she asks new clients to share a bit about their situation so that sessions can start with clear goals and a tailored plan.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Lavanniya often combines attachment-based work and cognitive behavioural techniques to help people address anxiety and relationship patterns. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early bonds influence current reactions and helps people notice repeating patterns in close relationships. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviours to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also draws on emotionally-focused ideas when people want to deepen emotional awareness and improve how they express feelings. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist and client review what is helping and adapt methods to fit the person’s goals and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when less bandwidth is available, live chat offers a shorter check-in format, and messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while keeping consistent contact with a registered or accredited professional.
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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 counseling
- 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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Tamil
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