About Lilian
Lilian Shundi is a counselling psychologist who uses clear, practical methods to help people manage stress and anxiety. She works from a compassionate stance and focuses on small changes that make daily life easier. Lilian holds a professional doctorate and is registered with HCPC in the United Kingdom.
She often begins by offering psychoeducation so clients understand what is keeping a problem going. That early stage includes mapping how thoughts, feelings and actions link together.
Background and approach
From there she helps people build simple strategies to change unhelpful patterns and try new ways of coping. Lilian draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify and shift thought patterns and behaviours that feed stress and low mood. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences shape current reactions.
Sessions are practical and conversational, with time for exercises and reflection between meetings. Her clinical focus covers anxiety, depression, relationship strain and family issues, plus self-esteem and workplace problems. She also supports people dealing with communication breakdown, separation, isolation and questions about life purpose and midlife change.
Lilian aims to help people recognise their own strengths and use them to move forward. She encourages steady progress and works with each person to build maintenance plans once goals are met. Lilian welcomes conversations in English and Swahili and is able to work with people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real life. In online sessions Lilian helps people notice thought patterns, set small experiments and use practical exercises to reduce anxiety and low mood. Psychodynamic work looks at how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions; online conversations can help uncover repeating patterns and make them easier to change.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lilian will discuss different techniques and agree a plan based on your problems, goals and what feels manageable. This shared planning means the therapy can shift if something is not helping or if priorities change.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or times when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief reflections, check-ins between sessions or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Swahili
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