Aakansha Sharma, BACP

Aakansha Sharma is a licensed counselling professional with nine years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship and trauma-related difficulties. She is known for an understanding, patient and empathetic stance, and brings strong listening skills and a friendly, nonjudgmental presence to her work. Aakansha often draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice and reframe unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour, encouraging more positive emotional and practical outcomes. She also uses a person-centered approach to help individuals identify strengths and areas for growth, and integrates methods such as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, psychodynamic and humanistic approaches, solution-focused brief therapy, spiritual counselling and mindfulness where appropriate and comfortable for the client.

Aakansha completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 2012, then began a Masters in Guidance and Counselling at James Cook University, Singapore, graduating in October 2016. To meet her degree requirements she completed an internship at NuLife Care and Counselling Services on 14 October 2016, where she worked with clients aged 8 to 40 presenting with childhood trauma, domestic violence, health-related challenges and substance misuse. From 2013 to 2015 she worked as a counsellor at the Centre for Psychotherapy and delivered drug intervention workshops at Changi Prison, Changi Women’s Prison and Tanah Merah Prison, as well as youth-focused interventions in collaboration with the Ministry of Social and Family Development and the Central Narcotics Bureau.

In 2017 she expanded her work with children and adolescents by joining Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, and she later completed an MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at King’s College London in December 2019. Aakansha is a Registered Member (MBACP) of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), which reflects her professional affiliation and commitment to ongoing standards of practice. She offers therapy in English and Hindi and brings specific experience addressing issues including addiction, grief, depression, family and intimacy-related concerns, attachment and abandonment, ADHD, and coping with life changes.