Dilshini Sandhu, BACP

Dilshini Sandhu brings a warm, heart-led approach to therapy. She uses an empathic, person-centred style to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and grief. Dilshini is a BACP counsellor and presents her work in a simple, respectful way that aims to put people at ease.

Her background includes study in music and psychology, followed by an MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London. She trained as a psychotherapeutic counsellor at the Metanoia Institute and is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy with a research focus on implicit bias and therapeutic relationships.

Dilshini draws on Client-Centred Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in her sessions. She focuses on helping people explore self-esteem, depression, and the after-effects of abuse or trauma. Practical conversations and emotional work sit alongside each other in her practice.

She also works with concerns such as abandonment and attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, avoidant personality traits, body image and the effects of chronic illness or cancer. Other areas she addresses include communication and control issues, codependency, blended family pressures and aspects of alternative sexual culture such as BDSM and kink.

Dilshini aims to make therapy approachable for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Her style is collaborative and sensitive, and she supports people to make changes that feel authentic to them.

How person-centred and emotion-focused therapy work online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, non-judgemental space where the person leads the conversation and the therapist responds with empathy and acceptance. This approach helps with issues such as low self-esteem, anxiety and navigating life changes by encouraging self-exploration and personal insight.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on understanding and working with strong emotions. It helps people notice patterns in how they react and relate, which can be useful for processing grief, trauma responses and attachment-related difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and together you will decide which methods to try. This collaborative process means approaches can be adapted as your needs evolve.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow deeper face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, caregiving and daily life, making it easier to keep continuity of support.