Aakansha Sharma, BACP

Aakansha Sharma is a counsellor and mental health specialist with a clear focus on children, adolescents and adults facing a wide range of emotional and behavioural challenges. She brings nine years of clinical experience working with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions and a variety of family and intimacy-related issues. Her work also addresses anger, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar disorder, ADHD and the practical challenges of coping with life changes. She uses a blend of evidence-informed methods including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Client-Centred Therapy - sometimes called person-centred work - Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and mindfulness-based approaches, adapting techniques to each person’s needs and comfort level.

Aakansha trained in the United States and the UK, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 2012, a Masters in Guidance and Counselling from James Cook University, Singapore in 2016, and an MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health from King’s College London in 2019. Early roles included a counsellor position at the Centre for Psychotherapy from 2013 to 2015 where she ran drug intervention workshops at Changi Prison, Changi Women’s Prison and Tanah Merah Prison and collaborated on youth supervision and inhalant abuse programmes.

She completed an internship at NuLife Care and Counselling Services in 2016, working with clients aged 8 to 40 on issues such as childhood trauma, domestic violence and substance misuse, and later joined Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes in 2017 to deepen her work with children and adolescents. Aakansha is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and offers therapy in English and Hindi from the United Kingdom while accepting international clients.