Dilshini Sandhu , BACP

Dilshini Sandhu is a BACP counsellor who brings a warm, relational style to therapy. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression. Dilshini aims to create a calm space where people can talk things through and find clearer ways forward.

Her practice emphasises client-centred work and emotionally-focused approaches that encourage honest emotion and greater self-understanding. Sessions are conversational and tailored to each person’s pace and goals rather than pushed toward any single technique.

Dilshini has six years of experience supporting adults through major life changes and emotional challenges. Her background in music and psychology shaped an appreciation for creative self-expression as part of healing, and she completed an MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London.

She is also training towards a doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy, with research into implicit bias and therapeutic relationships across difference. That work informs how she thinks about cultural expectations and the impact of identity in therapy.

As a South Asian practitioner, Dilshini is attentive to cultural stigma and family pressures that often affect wellbeing. She offers a respectful, compassionate approach and helps people explore their stories so they can move toward a more authentic and manageable life.

How client-centred and emotion-focused work translates online

Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the session. That means the counsellor listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps people make sense of their feelings. It is useful for stress, low self-esteem and adjusting to life changes.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how feelings and attachment patterns shape relationships and personal distress. EFT helps people notice and change recurring emotional responses, which can ease anxiety, grief and difficulties with closeness.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process, and the therapist will work collaboratively to find what fits your needs and goals. She will discuss options and adapt methods as you learn what helps you most.

Online sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video works well for a fuller face-to-face feeling, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging can allow reflection in between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caring duties or limited travel.