About Shushanik
Shushanik Gasparyan is a counsellor who draws on client-centred, narrative and psychodynamic approaches to help people manage anxiety and other life stresses. She speaks English and Armenian and works with adults who want practical ways to feel steadier. Her style is warm and respectful and she focuses on what matters to each person.
Shushanik offers straightforward conversations about what is causing distress. She helps people name feelings, spot unhelpful patterns, and try small changes that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions can cover worry, low mood, trauma and problems with sleep, eating or relationships. Her background includes eight years working in counselling and psychological roles in agency settings across the United Kingdom. She has also collaborated with international organisations on projects related to child abuse, bringing experience of structured project work alongside clinical practice.
In the room she uses listening and gentle questioning to help people tell their story in a new way. Narrative ideas help separate a person from their problem, while psychodynamic ideas look at recurring patterns that might come from earlier relationships. The client-centred focus keeps the person nd their goals at the centre of the work.
Shushanik supports practical plans alongside talking therapies. That can mean trying new routines for sleep or eating, practising small changes in how to handle anxiety, and reflecting on relationships and life purpose. The aim is steadier day-to-day functioning and clearer next steps.
People who prefer online formats can meet by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Shushanik will work collaboratively to find a style and pace that suits each person.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Shushanik uses client-centred therapy to follow each person nd their priorities. This means sessions begin with open listening and gentle reflection so the person sets the pace and focus. Narrative therapy is used to help people separate themselves from their problems by retelling difficult experiences and seeing new possibilities. Psychodynamic ideas are introduced to notice repeated patterns and how early experiences may shape current reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and together they will choose which ideas to try based on the person's goals and preferences. Sessions can shift between styles if different needs arise during therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can fit into busy days and allow frequent brief contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to arrange therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel, while offering continuity of care for those living outside major urban centres.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Armenian
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