About Dilshini
Dilshini Sandhu uses a warm, person-centred approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief and low self-esteem. She brings six years of clinical experience and a calm, collaborative style to sessions. Dilshini is known to listen closely and help people find clearer ways to cope.
She trained in psychology and counselling, and holds the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy credential BACP. Her background includes study in psychology and neuroscience and further training in psychotherapeutic counselling.
How Dilshini works
She is also pursuing a doctorate in counselling psychology and psychotherapy that looks at implicit bias and therapeutic relationships. Dilshini draws on Client-Centred Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to shape her work. That means sessions focus on understanding feelings, building safety in relation patterns, and helping people find their own solutions.
She uses everyday language and practical ideas rather than jargon. Her practice covers trauma and abuse, depression, and a range of identity and relationship challenges such as attachment and abandonment concerns. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, cancer, caregiver stress, body image and sexual diversity issues including BDSM and kink.
The aim is to help people feel more grounded and able to make changes they want. Sessions are shaped to each person, with an emphasis on respect for cultural background and lived experience. Dilshini works in English and offers different online formats to suit practical needs.
If someone is ready to begin, she guides them through the first steps and early sessions at a steady pace.
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What Dilshini works with
The areas below are the ones Dilshini selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Person-centred and emotionally-focused work online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s own experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor follows the person’s lead, reflects feelings and helps them find their own solutions. This approach is useful for issues like low self-esteem, stress and life transitions.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on patterns in close relationships and the feelings behind them. It helps people understand attachment responses and shift how they relate to others, which can reduce anxiety and improve emotional connection.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dilshini will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. That conversation happens gradually so people feel involved and understood rather than pushed into a single approach.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different routines. Video calls work well for visual connection and deeper dialogue, while phone sessions can suit shorter check-ins or times with lower bandwidth. Live chat and messaging can make it easier to keep regular contact, fit therapy into a busy day and reflect between messages. Many people find online formats make therapy more accessible while keeping the focus on meaningful emotional work with a registered or accredited professional.
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