About Shilpa
Shilpa Kurakula welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or relationship strain. She aims to make the first steps easier by listening without judgement and helping clients find clear, manageable ways forward. Shilpa works in a straightforward, practical way.
She asks what you want to change and helps you set realistic goals. Sessions focus on understanding what has shaped the problem, looking at available options, and trying simple strategies that fit your life.
How Shilpa works
Her background includes nine years of practice and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That experience has given her time to work with a wide range of concerns from bereavement and parenting strain to addictive behaviours and issues around self-esteem. Shilpa draws on client-centred ideas to keep sessions focused on your needs.
She also uses psychodynamic perspectives to look at patterns from the past, and solution-focused tools when quick, practical steps are helpful. She adapts the mix depending on what each person needs. People meet her for support with grief, family and relationship questions, coping with life changes, ADHD-related challenges, eating and body-image concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She will tailor the work to the individual's situation and pace the work to match how someone prefers to proceed. Sessions are offered in English and can be done online using video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Shilpa accepts clients in the United Kingdom and international clients, and she works with each person to find a suitable way forward.
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What Shilpa works with
The areas below are the ones Shilpa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Shilpa’s approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person in the room. The therapist listens closely, reflects what you say, and follows your lead to build understanding and confidence. This approach helps when someone needs supportive space to talk through feelings and decide what matters most.Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that may have started earlier in life and now affect current relationships and mood. Online sessions can use gentle exploration of these patterns to help people recognise recurring themes and make different choices in day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shilpa will discuss aims, preferences and practical needs with each person and then agree a way forward. She treats this as a collaborative process and will adjust methods as goals change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and circumstances. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can use less bandwidth, live chat suits quicker check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people reflect in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel, while keeping the focus on progress and practical steps.
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A practical next step
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