About Savithri
Savithri (Savi) Jayaweera is a counsellor with 16 years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. She is registered as NCPS and provides tailored support for a wide range of emotional and behavioural concerns. She meets people with respect, sensitivity and compassion and aims to adapt conversations and plans to each person’s needs.
Savi’s work covers stress, anxiety and depression as well as trauma and abuse. She also helps with self-esteem, motivation, addictions and issues around intimacy.
How Savithri works
She supports people facing grief, parenting strain, sleeping or eating difficulties, and career-related challenges. Her practice draws on several therapeutic approaches so she can match methods to a person’s challenges. She uses cognitive work to identify unhelpful thoughts and supports emotional regulation and acceptance-based strategies to build meaning and values-driven action.
Attachment-informed ideas guide work about early relationships and patterns. She has a background in community and youth services, including work with Black and minority ethnic communities, YMCA youth work, and referrals from NHS and addiction services. That experience informs her understanding of cultural and practical pressures faced by people who have moved country or who face discrimination.
Savi offers sessions in English, Hindi, Sinhala and Urdu and accepts international clients. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose a way that fits their life.
Savithri lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Savithri works with
The areas below are the ones Savithri selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- 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
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English, Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without struggling with them, then commit to actions that match their values. It often helps with anxiety, low mood and motivation difficulties. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings and behaviours together and uses practical exercises to reduce unhelpful thinking patterns and improve day-to-day functioning. It suits problems like depression, anxiety and some eating or sleeping problems. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses, which can help when working through intimacy, abandonment or trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then use techniques from these models in a collaborative way. Plans are adapted as people try things and notice what helps, so the process stays practical and goal-focused.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy fit around life. Video calls let people use visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can be short check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help with scheduling, accessibility and maintaining continuity of care across locations.
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