About Lavanniya
Lavanniya Langa is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 14 years of professional experience. She works with people facing common life struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. She also supports those coping with trauma, abuse and major life transitions.
Sessions can be held in English or Tamil. Lavanniya uses practical, person-focused approaches to shape conversations. She listens for what matters to each person, then adapts the dialogue and plan to suit that individual.
How Lavanniya works
Expect straightforward talk about goals, patterns and small steps to try between sessions. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current ones. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot and change thinking patterns that keep problems going.
Emotionally-focused methods help when difficult feelings are getting in the way of intimacy or communication. People bring a wide range of concerns such as self-esteem, grief, addictions, parenting strain, eating and sleeping difficulties, and career stress. Lavanniya also addresses specific issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, attachment difficulties and the stresses of caregiving.
She aims for a respectful, sensitive and compassionate tone. The focus is on practical conversations that fit each person’s needs. Getting started usually begins with a short questionnaire and arranging sessions at times that suit the client.
Lavanniya lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Lavanniya works with
The areas below are the ones Lavanniya selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English, Tamil |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. This approach is useful when relationship patterns, trust or abandonment themes keep repeating. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behaviour changes. It often helps with anxiety, depression and coping with stressful situations. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor offers empathy and acceptance while the client leads the pace and goals.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The counsellor and client will discuss needs, preferences and goals and decide together which methods to try. That collaborative process can change as the work progresses, blending elements from different approaches where helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility around work, family or time zones. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing or need brief, ongoing contact between longer sessions. Registered and accredited professionals offer these formats so therapy can fit daily life and practical constraints.
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