Aashima Aggarwal, BACP

Aashima Aggarwal is a fully trained counsellor, psychotherapist, and life coach with 16 years of clinical experience supporting people through anxiety, depression, stress, relationship difficulties, and life transitions. She takes an integrative approach, listening carefully to each person so she can understand both what is spoken and what may have been carried quietly for a long time. This attentive style helps her to create a compassionate therapeutic relationship where clients can be honest, open, and accepted in their own pace.

Aashima holds a Master’s degree in Psychology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, and she is a member of the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her training allows her to draw on a range of methods and tools tailored to each client’s needs, including talking therapies, cognitive behavioural techniques when helpful, mindfulness and meditation practices, grounding exercises, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) tapping, and reflective therapeutic work.

She has particular experience working with stress, low self-esteem, parenting difficulties, insomnia, anger, emotional overwhelm, workplace issues, and trauma and abuse. Aashima understands that concerns often overlap - for example anxiety linked with low self-worth or stress linked with burnout - and she works collaboratively to gently explore these patterns and develop healthier ways of responding.

Her aim is to help people feel calmer, clearer, and more confident in coping with life’s challenges. Clients can start exactly where they are and move forward at a pace that feels right, building trust and self-awareness along the way.

Therapeutic approaches for online support

Aashima often combines Client-Centred Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to create a warm, relational space where clients can explore their feelings and strengthen connections. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and supporting a person to find their own solutions, which is helpful for issues like low self-esteem, life changes, and general stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) works with patterns in relationships and emotional responses, aiming to help people understand and transform how they relate to others and to themselves, which can be useful for relationship concerns and intense emotional reactions.

She also integrates Mindfulness Therapy techniques to help clients develop present-moment awareness and practical grounding skills for anxiety, sleep difficulties, and emotional overwhelm. Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey - Aashima collaborates with each person to identify which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as therapy progresses.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility and accessibility. These options allow clients to choose a format that fits their schedule and comfort level, making it easier to maintain continuity of care whether managing busy work and family life or connecting from another location. Registered professionals and therapists can adapt these methods effectively to support meaningful change through remote work.