About Malini
Malini Shummoogum is a counsellor with 25 years of experience who supports people dealing with stress and anxiety. She helps clients manage addictions, relationship worries and low self-esteem. Her approach is warm and respectful, focused on practical steps people can use day to day.
Malini keeps sessions straightforward and centred on each person's needs. She offers a calm space where people can talk about what is most worrying them and set small, workable goals.
Background and approach
She emphasises listening first, then collaborating on what might help next. Her work draws on a mix of well-known approaches. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change thinking patterns that feed anxiety.
Client-Centred Therapy guides sessions when people need validation and more space to reflect. Malini also brings mindfulness practices and solution-focused ideas into conversations. These methods are used to build coping skills and to identify practical steps for everyday life.
Hypnotherapy is another tool she uses when it fits a person's preferences. People come to her for help with issues such as abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, communication problems and control issues. She also supports those facing divorce, guilt and shame, impulsivity, loneliness, life purpose questions, men’s issues, midlife crises, mood problems and narcissism-related concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and take place within the United Kingdom. Malini aims to empower people to make manageable changes and to feel more confident in handling life’s stresses.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating a non-judgemental space where the client leads the conversation and the counsellor offers empathy and understanding. This approach is helpful when someone needs to explore feelings, build self-esteem or find direction at their own pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and replace them with more useful patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety and low mood and often includes simple exercises to practise between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then adapt methods together. This is a collaborative process and can change over time as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging can fit into busy days or provide ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit counselling into daily life and keep continuity across changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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