ABOUT ME
Eesha Barjatya
MCouns, M.A.
FOCUS
Eesha is a psychotherapist with a master’s degree in Counselling from the University of Edinburgh (UK) and a master’s degree in Lifespan Counselling Psychology from St. Xavier’s College (Mumbai). Her work is rooted in helping adults and adolescents better understand themselves, process and nagivate emotional difficulties and build healthier relationships with themselves and others. She works with a range of concerns that clients experience, including anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, self-esteem difficulties, interpersonal and family concerns, body image issues, academic or work-related stress, and more. Having worked with clients in India, the UK and other parts of the world, her work is sensitive to the different social, cultural and familial contexts that can shape emotional experiences and identity.
PHILOSOPHY
Eesha believes therapy is a deeply personal and collaborative process that offers clients the space to slow down, reflect, process and connect with themselves in meaningful ways. She sees emotional struggles not as something ‘wrong’ , but as experiences often shaped by past incidents, relationships, environments, unmet emotional needs and the ways that people learned to protect themselves over time. She believes therapy can help individuals not just work on symptom reduction but also develop a deeper understanding of their inner world and create lasting, meaningful change. Her philosophy surrounds the belief that healing becomes possible when people feel emotionally safe, with the therapeutic relationship being central to the process of therapy. She strives to make clients feel heard and accepted without judgement, allowing themselves to access and express parts of themselves that they may have suppressed earlier or struggled to understand. Through therapy, she supports clients in approaching these parts of themselves with greater curiosity and compassion, while gradually building healthier ways of relating to their emotions, relationships and sense of self.
Master of Counselling (Interpersonal Dialogue) The University of Edinburgh, UK
Master of Arts in Psychology (Lifespan Counselling) St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
› Specialised Training in:
- Person-centred therapy
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Gestalt therapy
› Certifications & Advanced Training:
- Counselling and Psychotherapy in
Scotland (COSCA) qualified -
2023. - Applied Transactional Analysis -
Heart to Heart Counselling
Centre, Mumbai (2020). - Psychological First Aid (2020).
- Personal Counselling (Robert
Carkhuff model) - Heart to Heart
Counselling Centre, Mumbai
(2017).
APPROACH
Guiding you towards healing and self-discovery
Eesha’s theoretical orientation draws from the person-centred, psychodynamic and gestalt approaches to psychotherapy. With her work being trauma-informed and attachment-focused, she aims to facilitate deeper emotional processing as well as skill-building and self-awareness. She aims to create a therapeutic space that feels warm, accepting and nonjudgemental, through which clients can safely explore and deepen their understanding of themselves. Alongside reflective dialogue and deeper processing, she may incorporate grounding strategies, parts work, somatic work, experiential techniques and other interventions to support emotional processing and regulation.