About Shilpa
Shilpa Kurakula offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by worry, low mood or life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely so someone who is anxious or uncertain can say what matters most. Sessions focus on understanding the problem and finding workable next steps rather than jargon or long theories.
She draws on nine years of counselling experience and holds an Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, or BACP.
Background and approach
That background helps her blend different ways of working to meet each person's needs. In sessions she asks about the history of the problem and about what the person wants to be different. Together they look at practical options and small steps to try between meetings.
This can include coping strategies for stress and anxiety, or ways to approach relationship and family tensions. She also supports people facing grief, parenting strain, addiction concerns, body image and eating issues, and struggles with self-esteem or anger. Trauma, abandonment and blended family issues are included in her work when relevant.
The focus is on what the client brings and what they want to change. Sessions can include talking, reflecting on patterns, and setting clear goals. Shilpa adapts her style to each person and checks in about progress as therapy continues.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what the person says. The aim is to help someone feel heard and to clarify what they want to change, which suits worries about anxiety, self-esteem and relationship uncertainty.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns from a person’s past that show up in their present life. It can help when feelings keep repeating or when old family issues affect current relationships.
Solution-Focused Therapy stays forward-looking and practical. It focuses on small, achievable steps and on what would be different if problems were eased, which works well for managing stress and building coping strategies.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals and preferences and together decide which way of working fits best. This is a collaborative process and may change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be useful when bandwidth is low, live chat supports a shorter check-in, and messaging suits people who prefer writing. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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