About Poonam
Poonam Sejpal is a counsellor with 11 years of experience who helps people facing anxiety, relationship worries and other life stresses. She offers a warm, respectful space where people can talk through what is causing them distress. Her style is empathetic and non-judgemental, focused on building trust so clients feel heard.
She uses a mix of approaches to suit each person. Cognitive behavioural techniques help with immediate patterns of thought and behaviour.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships affect current connections. Narrative and psychodynamic elements help people make sense of past events and recurring themes. Poonam works with many concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, parenting strain, grief, intimacy issues, career questions and ADHD.
She also supports people dealing with family conflict, codependency, communication problems and related challenges. She does not label people; she listens to their experience and responds to what they bring. Sessions are collaborative.
Poonam helps clients set clear goals and tries out practical steps between meetings. Conversations may include exploring difficult feelings, changing unhelpful thinking, and experimenting with new behaviours at home or work. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, practises in the United Kingdom and offers work in English.
People can expect straightforward, compassionate support aimed at helping them manage anxiety and move towards more stable day-to-day functioning.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Poonam uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behaviour changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood and stress because it breaks problems into clear steps to work on.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current connection and intimacy problems. This helps when relationship patterns or fears of abandonment are part of the difficulty.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together they will choose methods that suit the person. That might mean trying CBT techniques for a few sessions, or looking at past relationships with an attachment perspective, or mixing methods depending on progress.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while saving travel time. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or suit people who do not want to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick reflections between meetings, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact and to work through anxiety and relationship concerns across everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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