About Rupinder
Rupinder Sagoo is a counsellor with 25 years of experience and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She takes an integrative view, looking beyond a single symptom to consider emotions, relationships, lifestyle and sleep. Rupinder offers both shorter and longer-term therapy tailored to each person.
Her work draws on a mix of approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based and Client-Centred methods, cognitive behavioural techniques, and existential ideas.
How Rupinder works
She blends these depending on what an individual brings to sessions. The aim is practical change alongside clearer understanding. Rupinder pays attention to everyday factors that affect wellbeing.
She may talk about rest and sleep routines, diet, meaning and life goals alongside feelings and thought patterns. This helps people spot small, manageable changes that add up. Common concerns she supports include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem and relationship difficulties.
Additional areas of focus listed by Rupinder include issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, body image and coping with divorce or separation. Career and life transitions are also part of her practice. Sessions are offered in English and she works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Rupinder uses her varied training to adapt to different needs, aiming for a clear, calm pace in conversations. She encourages practical steps and reflection between meetings. Her background includes postgraduate study in psychotherapeutic counselling and certificates in CBT and counselling.
The approach is collaborative: she and the person in therapy decide what to focus on and how to move forward.
Rupinder lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Rupinder works with
The areas below are the ones Rupinder selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify what matters to them and to take small steps towards those values, while learning new ways to relate to difficult thoughts and feelings. It suits worries about anxiety, low mood and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and feelings; it helps people understand connection, trust and repeating relationship patterns.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own experience, with the counsellor offering empathic listening and non-judgemental support. This approach can help people feel heard, build self-trust and work through issues such as low self-esteem or relationship concerns. Rupinder uses these approaches as tools and will discuss which mix seems most helpful for a person’s goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review needs, try approaches and adjust as goals and preferences become clearer. Decisions about method are collaborative and can change over time as progress is made.
Online sessions in this practice are available by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Video calls are useful when visual cues help the conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be shorter, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and family life, and to continue work when location or schedules change.
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