About Sarvin
Sarvin Afarinesh offers a calm, down-to-earth way of talking through what is causing distress. She focuses on helping people reconnect with themselves so they can work out what they need to feel more fulfilled. Sarvin uses a gentle, curious style that aims to make difficult topics easier to bring into the room.
Sarvin draws on many ways of working to suit each person. She looks at thoughts, feelings, body sensations and behaviours to understand patterns that keep people stuck.
Background and approach
Sessions can include creative activity such as drawing or writing when that helps someone express themselves. She pays attention to identity and cultural difference when these matter to the person in front of her. She trained at the Minster Centre and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy, plus a range of counselling and arts qualifications.
Sarvin is a BACP member, which is listed here as a professional credential. Over eleven years she has worked with people facing anxiety, stress, depression, addictions and grief, among other concerns. Her experience includes supporting those dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and attachment difficulties.
She also helps with eating and sleeping problems, career and life transitions, and compassion fatigue. Sarvin offers sessions in English and Persian and accepts international clients. Online appointments are available by video or voice call, and she can use creative exercises when they feel helpful.
To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to availability.
How Sarvin's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's experience and aims to create a respectful, non-directive space where clients can find their own solutions. This approach helps when someone needs to be heard and to rebuild their sense of self. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns from past relationships and how they show up now; it can help when repeated behaviours or feelings keep causing problems. Somatic Therapy pays attention to the body and physical sensations as part of emotional work, which can be useful for trauma, anxiety and stress-related symptoms.Choosing the right way of working is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try different techniques and adapt the approach to the client's needs, goals and preferences. Over a few sessions the style and focus can shift as the person and counsellor learn what is most helpful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial expressions and use creative exercises during the session. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins or people who find it easier to write their thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and different time zones while still working with registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Persian
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