About Poonam
Poonam Patel is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She supports individuals dealing with grief, parenting pressures, relationship worries and family problems. Her approach is conversational and grounded, aimed at making the first steps into therapy feel less daunting.
She builds sessions around honest conversation and gentle curiosity. Clients can expect a calm space to talk about what matters most and to name difficult feelings without judgement.
Background and approach
Poonam uses listening and reflection to help people understand patterns in their lives and emotions. Her work draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences influence present behaviour. She also uses trauma-focused methods when people have been through overwhelming events and need help to process those experiences.
Those approaches guide how she helps people unfold difficult memories and reactions at a manageable pace. Poonam has five years of professional experience and holds BACP. She balances exploration of emotional history with practical steps people can try between sessions.
This mix aims to reduce overwhelm and build clearer coping strategies. People can expect collaborative planning in early sessions, with clear focus on what they want to change. Poonam explains options and adapts the pace to each person.
Her work is straightforward, respectful and focused on making everyday life a bit easier.
How her approaches work online
Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past experiences shape current feelings and relationships. Online sessions use conversation to uncover repeated patterns and to name feelings that might be driving stress or anxiety. This approach can help when worries return again and again without a clear cause.Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on helping people process distressing events in a paced way. In online work this can mean gentle storytelling, grounding techniques and steps to reduce overwhelming reactions, which can support recovery from post-traumatic stress or abuse-related difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is a shared task. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals and what feels manageable. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the work collaborative and paced to the person.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can suit short check-ins, and messaging works well for regular, on-the-go contact. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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