About Savithri
Savithri (Savi) Jayaweera has worked in mental health and counselling for 16 years in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS and has built a practice helping people with stress, anxiety and mood concerns. Savi takes a respectful, warm approach and aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person she meets.
Her background includes postgraduate study in clinical psychology and integrative counselling and psychotherapy. Over the years she has worked with youth services, community projects and health agencies, and has experience with domestic violence, sexual abuse and HIV‑related work.
Background and approach
Savi draws on a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. She uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking. She also uses person-centred and attachment-informed work to strengthen relationships and sense of self.
Her practice includes support for anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, grief, parenting stress, eating and sleeping difficulties, low self‑esteem, and issues around intimacy and identity. She also lists areas such as ADHD, bipolar and compassion fatigue among her experience areas. Sessions can be carried out in English, Hindi, Sinhala or Urdu.
Savi accepts international clients and works through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled according to availability.
How Savi uses therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then commit to actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, avoidance and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which often helps with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Attachment‑based work attends to how relationships shape emotional responses and can help people who struggle with trust, intimacy or patterns from early relationships.Choosing the right approach is usually a collaborative step. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made as progress is reviewed so the plan stays relevant.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions work well for shorter check‑ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit quick reflections, notes between sessions or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when circumstances change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu
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