About Sarvin
Sarvin Afarinesh helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed or unsure about their next step. She offers a warm, engaged style that aims to help people reconnect with themselves and figure out what they need to live more fully. Sarvin works in English and Persian and practises from a multicultural perspective.
She draws on her training in psychotherapy and counselling to look at thoughts, feelings, body responses and behaviour together.
How Sarvin works
Sessions are grounded in curiosity and compassion rather than judgement. Her approach blends psychodynamic ideas about past patterns with humanistic and existential thinking about meaning and choice. She also uses body-focused work to notice how feelings show up physically, and encourages creative expression like drawing or writing when that feels useful.
The mix is chosen to suit each person rather than following a single method. Sarvin has 11 years of experience and holds BACP membership. She has postgraduate and diploma-level training in integrative psychotherapy and counselling, plus certificates in art therapy, integrative arts and couples counselling.
This background supports work on identity, culture and difference. People come to her for a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, self-esteem and grief. Problems such as relationship or intimacy concerns, body image and work-related stress are also within her focus.
She offers online sessions by video, phone, chat or messaging to fit different needs. The first steps are practical and straightforward: complete a short questionnaire and schedule a session. Sarvin aims to help people understand themselves more fully and take small, steady steps toward change.
Sarvin lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Sarvin works with
The areas below are the ones Sarvin selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English, Persian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Sarvin’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person and their experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens attentively and follows the person’s pace, helping people feel heard and clearer about their own choices. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns that developed over time and how past relationships shape present behaviour; it can help when habits or repeated difficulties feel hard to change. Somatic Therapy pays attention to bodily signals and uses gentle exercises or awareness of physical sensations to help process emotion and reduce tension.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sarvin will discuss what feels most helpful and try methods that suit the person’s needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process means the plan can change as therapy progresses and new insights emerge.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for a near face-to-face experience, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging allow shorter check-ins or a way to reflect without being on camera. These options help people fit therapy around work, family life or travel and make it easier to keep continuity when circumstances change.
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