Shani is a Counselling Psychologist and Registered Practitioner at the BPS as well as BABCP and HCPC. She has more than 20  years experience of helping clients in a variety of contexts, from a wide range of ages, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds. Having accumulated experience in psychological services in frontline London public-sector institutions, she now works independently offering psychological therapies, psychotherapy and mindfulness based  interventions. She has completed a doctorate in counselling psychology at the University of East London.

Specialist Areas

She works in many specialist areas. They include:

• Stress 

• Depression

• Anxiety

• OCD

• Phobias

• Relationships

• Personality disorder

• Parenting issues

• Childhood neglect

• Eating mindfully

• Sleep problems

• Panic disorder

• Managing anger

• Trauma / PTSD

• Bereavement

• Chronic pain management

• Couple issues

However, she does not narrowly define individuals’ needs according to issues only, because she works with people, not diagnoses and believe that a successful outcome is best achieved through tailoring differing psychological techniques & practices according to a wider view of the individual. In order to effectively treat my clients, she will use a variety of scientifically proven psychological techniques.  She’ll use a combination of these therapeutic modalities and tailor the protocol according to the client’s individual case needs.

• Person-centred therapy

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

• Intensive Short-term Psychodynamic therapy (ISTDP)

• Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT)

• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

• Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) (group for DBT also)

• Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)

• Schematherapy

• Yoga therapy

• Emotional focused Therapy (EFT)

• CBT for PTSD