Aakansha Sharma, BACP

Aakansha Sharma is a counsellor with nine years' experience who helps people make sense of stress, anxiety, relationship problems and life changes. She uses straightforward conversation and active listening to help clients notice unhelpful thinking and to build more useful habits. Aakansha works in English and Hindi and is based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP, which indicates membership of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Before working in private practice, Aakansha completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the State University of New York, University at Buffalo, and a Masters in Guidance and Counselling from James Cook University, Singapore. She also completed an MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at King's College London in 2019.

Her early roles included counselling and running drug intervention workshops in custodial settings, and supporting young people through supervision programmes connected with national agencies. Those experiences shaped her work with people affected by addiction, trauma and custody-related distress.

Aakansha draws on a mix of practical methods in sessions. She commonly uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help clients identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. She also offers person-centred listening to help people find their own strengths and next steps.

She sometimes brings in trauma-focused techniques such as EMDR and skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy when they suit a person’s needs and comfort. Sessions tend to focus on understandable steps people can take each week to feel steadier and to manage everyday habits and thoughts more effectively.

How therapy approaches shape online work

Aakansha commonly uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice and change patterns of thinking that feed anxiety, low mood or unhelpful habits. CBT sessions focus on simple tools and small experiments people can practise between meetings to see if different thoughts lead to different feelings and actions.

She also uses Client-Centred Therapy, which centres on listening and reflecting so clients can identify their own strengths and priorities. This approach suits people who want a supportive space to work out next steps at their own pace.

Finding the right approach is something she does together with each person. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust the plan if something does not feel helpful. That collaboration helps shape what happens week to week.

Confirm the available session formats before booking because the biography does not specify which options are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives - for example by reducing travel time, making it simpler to have shorter check-ins, or giving more flexibility around work and family commitments. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises, homework and grounding techniques to suit remote sessions and everyday routines.