ABOUT ME
Avishi Jalan
M.A. in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Avishi’s work supports individuals in uncovering the deeper emotional drivers that shape their inner world and relationships. Her approach helps clients gently challenge limiting beliefs, recognise recurring relational patterns, and rewrite long-standing emotional scripts in ways that lead to meaningful and lasting change.
She works with concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, self-harm, eating disorders, and interpersonal difficulties. Avishi’s approach is primarily Psychodynamic, while also drawing from Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), Transactional Analysis, and Attachment Theory. By looking to the past to illuminate present-day patterns, she helps clients develop insight that naturally bridges into actionable change.
Avishi combines depth-oriented exploration with practical coping strategies and a goal-oriented lens. This allows clients to uncover unconscious patterns, identify core emotional needs, and begin breaking cycles of generational trauma. Over time, this work supports stronger emotional regulation, healthier boundaries, and more fulfilling relational dynamics; always in ways that feel culturally attuned and personally relevant.
Whether navigating inner turmoil or relational ruptures, Avishi offers a space rooted in compassion, curiosity, and emotional safety. She works at a pace that feels respectful and manageable, inviting reflection without pressure and growth without judgment, while guiding clients toward greater self-compassion and empowered connections
Avishi’s work with early adults is especially attuned to the intensity and uncertainty of this life stage; where career beginnings, independence, and shifting relationships often collide with inner doubts and unanswered questions.
Having experienced therapy herself as a young teenager, Avishi brings lived empathy into these sessions, understanding both the hope and hesitation that can accompany seeking support. Her time living and working across the US and UK has further shaped her sensitivity to how culture, identity, and context influence each person’s emotional landscape.
She supports early adults navigating academic pressure, career indecision, family expectations, social isolation, identity exploration, and early relational heartbreaks. Therapy here is not reserved for moments of crisis alone; it is a proactive space to deepen self understanding, strengthen resilience, and lay the foundation for more grounded and fulfilling paths ahead.
Avishi believes that even small emotional ruptures hold opportunities for repair. With clarity and kindness, she helps clients transform confusion into direction and self-doubt into steadier self-trust. Informed by her experience in school counselling and play therapy, she may integrate creative elements; such as guided imagery or role-play to make insight tangible and progress felt, supporting emotional steadiness and more confident decision-making.
MA in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy
Goldsmiths, University of London
› Specialised Training In:
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT)
- Transactional Analysis
- Attachment-Based Work
- Trauma-Sensitive & Risk-Aware Practice
- Creative & Experiential Therapeutic Interventions
- Eating Disorders
- Child, Adolescent & Early Adult Mental Health
- Individual therapy across both short-term, structured and exploratory psychodynamic frameworks
- Group facilitation for anxiety, depression, agoraphobia, and bipolar disorder
- Culturally sensitive work with diverse populations, including extensive experience with BAME communities
- UK-based community mental health practice within NHS-linked organisations
› Certifications & Advanced Training:
- Diploma in Integrative Counselling
Heart to Heart Institute, London
– Advanced Training in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT)
– Advanced Training in Transactional Analysis
– Creative Therapeutic Writing - Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches for Eating Disorders
Dr Melanie Smith, PhD, LMHC, CEDS-C - BA in Applied Psychology
Bryant University, USA - Clinical Tools & Practice Systems:
PHQ-9, GAD-7, ongoing risk assessments, safety planning, and Electronic Health Record systems including LUMIS and Caring Made Simple
APPROACH
Guiding you towards healing and self-discovery
Avishi’s approach is grounded in psychodynamic therapy, which means she pays close attention to how past experiences and early relationships shape how a client feels, thinks, and relates to others and to themselves in the present. She creates a nurturing environment which encourages the client to talk openly about difficult thoughts and feelings at their own pace. As a group facilitator, she values the power of shared stories and connections and brings this sensitivity to how dynamics play out both in groups and in one-to-one work. Together with the client, she aims to gently notice these patterns, understand where they come from, and experiment with new ways of relating that feel healthier, more flexible, and more authentic to who the client is.
