About Shivani
Shivani Sood is an ACA counsellor with ten years' experience working with people facing stress, anxiety and major life changes. She offers steady, practical support for day-to-day struggles and stronger reactions like panic attacks. Her manner is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel understood and less overwhelmed.
Shivani uses a client-centred, integrative approach that adapts to each person's needs. Sessions focus on building trust, naming what feels hard, and learning skills to manage symptoms.
Background and approach
She helps people develop self-compassion, routine strategies and ways to face difficult memories or situations. Her background includes work with complex mental health presentations across different regions and cultures. That experience informs how she responds to grief, trauma and relationship stress.
Shivani also supports people managing chronic illness, caregiver strain, separation and the distress that comes with abandonment or attachment issues. Practical aims in therapy include reducing panic and obsessive behaviours, working through guilt or shame, and rebuilding confidence after narcissistic or abusive experiences. She offers clear steps for coping with work stress, loneliness, midlife questions and finding life purpose.
Sessions are offered in English, Hindi and Punjabi. Shivani provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different routines and needs.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Shivani draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skill building and processing difficult experiences. One approach emphasises symptom management through step-by-step strategies to reduce anxiety and panic; this looks like breathing and grounding exercises, gradual exposure to feared situations and practical relapse prevention. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and painful memories in a paced way so people can make sense of what happened and reduce its hold on daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shivani will talk with each person about their goals, history and preferences, then tailor which techniques to use and how fast to progress. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan can change as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps. Phone sessions suit people who need less bandwidth or want a quieter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging provide short, frequent support between sessions or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, study or caregiving routines.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi
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