Aakansha Sharma, BACP

Aakansha Sharma is a UK-based therapist with a strong background in supporting individuals across a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, grief, addiction, and challenges related to family and intimacy. She combines evidence-informed approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness, psychodynamic methods, solution-focused techniques, and client-centered principles to tailor care to each person’s needs. As a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP), she draws on both clinical training and practical experience to help people explore patterns, build coping skills, and work toward clearer goals.

Aakansha earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, in 2012 and completed a Masters in Guidance and Counselling at James Cook University, Singapore in 2016. To further specialise with younger clients, she later completed an MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at King’s College London in December 2019. Her formal training included an internship at NuLife Care and Counselling Services, where she worked with clients aged 8 to 40 on issues ranging from childhood trauma and domestic violence to substance use and health-related concerns.

Her professional experience includes roles at the Centre for Psychotherapy from 2013 to 2015, where she led drug intervention workshops in correctional settings and collaborated with government agencies on youth supervision and inhalant abuse initiatives. She has managed cases involving addiction, molestation, anger management, stress, anxiety, and custody dispute evaluations, and she joined Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes in 2017 to deepen her work with children and adolescents. These roles informed her work with families, young people, and adults facing complex emotional and behavioural challenges.

Aakansha works in both English and Hindi and applies a compassionate, patient, and listening-focused style. Her clinical interests include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication and control difficulties, domestic violence, impulsivity, isolation, and challenges associated with neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger Syndrome. She integrates spiritual counselling and mindfulness when appropriate, adapting interventions to each person’s comfort and therapeutic goals.