About Shushanik
Shushanik Gasparyan offers a warm, person-focused approach to counselling. She uses client-centred principles to help people feel heard and accepted as they talk through difficult feelings. Shushanik works in English and Armenian and brings eight years of experience to her practice in the United Kingdom.
She supports people coping with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, anger and career concerns.
How Shushanik works
Additional focus areas include ADHD, codependency, communication problems, obsessions and compulsions, and multicultural concerns. In sessions she listens closely to the story a person brings and helps them make sense of patterns. Narrative techniques are used to separate a person from painful beliefs and to find alternatives.
Psychodynamic ideas are drawn on to look at how past experiences shape current feelings and reactions. Shushanik aims to make therapy practical and relevant. Conversations will often include noticing recurring themes, testing small changes and building clearer ways to cope day to day.
She adapts her way of working to meet each person's needs rather than following a single formula. Her background includes work with international organisations on child protection projects as well as several years in agency settings. Shushanik welcomes people who would like either shorter-term focused work or longer-term exploration.
If someone prefers to speak in Armenian or English she can offer both languages.
Shushanik lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Shushanik works with
The areas below are the ones Shushanik selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Armenian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online counselling and care
Shushanik uses client-centred work to make people feel understood and respected. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting what someone says, and helping them find their own solutions; it can be useful for stress, low mood and self-esteem issues.She also draws on narrative therapy to help people rewrite difficult life stories. Narrative work helps separate a person from unhelpful labels and find new ways to relate to challenges like trauma, relationship problems or feeling stuck.
The choice of approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through options and try methods that fit a person's goals and comfort. Together they will review what helps most and adapt the way of working over time.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller connection is helpful. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into shorter time windows. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for regular check-ins, short reflections or when writing feels easier than speaking.
These formats make it simpler to arrange therapy around work, family and travel. Registered or accredited professionals can provide comparable therapeutic support online, and many people find the different formats help them stay consistent with sessions.
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