Sarvin Afarinesh, BACP

Sarvin Afarinesh offers a warm, engaging approach to uncovering the sources of emotional pain and supporting clients to reconnect with themselves. She brings an integrative, multicultural practice that combines psychodynamic, humanistic and existential ideas with body-oriented work, creativity and clinical intuition. In therapy she explores thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and behaviours with curiosity and compassion, helping clients examine relationships, values and unmet needs to identify patterns that keep them stuck.

Sarvin works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, identity and cultural difference, grief, parenting and career challenges. She has particular experience supporting clients with attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, mood difficulties and concerns related to sexuality and alternative sexual cultures. Her practice welcomes creative expression such as drawing, writing and working with objects as part of the therapeutic process.

She is a BACP registered member - British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and is accredited by the UKCP - United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Her clinical training includes a Post Graduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy from the Minster Centre, a Diploma in Integrative Counselling, a Graduate Diploma in Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society, and certificates in art therapy, integrative arts and couples counselling. With 11 years of professional experience, she offers online sessions by video or voice call and accepts international clients, aiming to help people feel more empowered to live the lives they want.

Integrative approaches for online therapy and healing

Client-centered therapy focuses on creating an accepting, non-judgmental space where the client is seen as the expert on their own life. This approach helps people build self-awareness, self-compassion and clearer sense of values, and is useful for issues like low self-esteem, relationship concerns and life transitions.

Psychodynamic therapy explores how past experiences, attachment patterns and unconscious processes shape current feelings and behaviours. It can help uncover recurring relational patterns and deeper sources of distress, offering insight that supports longer-term change.

Somatic therapy pays attention to bodily sensations and how emotions are held in the body, using gentle awareness of physical experience to complement talk-based work. This can be particularly helpful for trauma, anxiety and chronic stress where the body plays a key role in how someone experiences symptoms.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sarvin works with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences, and she adapts the plan as therapy progresses to ensure the work feels helpful and relevant.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access support across distances. Registered professionals can use these formats to maintain continuity of care and to tailor pacing, frequency and tools to each client's circumstances.