Sasha Dineen, BACP

Sasha Dineen is a counsellor who draws on humanistic and person-centred ideas to help people manage thoughts and everyday habits. She holds a BA (Hons) Degree in Humanistic Counselling and works from a practical, down-to-earth stance. Sasha combines calm presence with straightforward conversations to help clients tackle stress, anxiety and life changes.

She has five years' experience running a private practice and working with Employee Assistance Programmes. Those roles involve short-term, solution-focused sessions alongside humanistic principles. Sasha also teaches counselling, mental health and mindfulness courses to students and professionals.

Sasha has experience supporting people with a wide range of concerns. These include relationships, grief, self-esteem, addiction, trauma, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, career worries and mood conditions such as depression and bipolar. She also works with issues like abandonment, adoption and attachment difficulties.

Creative arts play a regular part in her work, used to open up thinking and shift unhelpful habits. She has worked with adults, children and young people in both in-person and online settings. Clients can expect a conversational style that invites reflection and practical steps.

Outside work Sasha enjoys badminton, sea swimming in warm weather and quiet board games or jigsaw puzzles. These personal interests inform a relaxed and personable approach to sessions.

How Sasha's approaches translate to online therapy

Sasha uses humanistic and person-centred ideas alongside short-term solution-focused techniques. Humanistic and person-centred work emphasises listening, empathy and helping people notice their own strengths to change everyday habits and thinking patterns. Short-term solution-focused work centres on setting small, practical goals and tracking progress between sessions to ease stress or anxiety.

She also incorporates creative arts methods to help people express thoughts they find hard to put into words. These activities can reveal unhelpful patterns and suggest new ways of responding to situations like relationship strain, grief or low confidence. The therapist will discuss whether creative elements suit a person and adapt exercises to fit online sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sasha will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. That might mean a stronger focus on solutions at first, then moving to more reflective, person-centred work as trust builds.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow regular check-ins during life transitions. Because formats in the biography are not exhaustively listed, confirm current session options before booking to know what is available. Registered and accredited professionals often tailor online sessions to suit quiet surroundings, shorter check-ins or creative exercises without needing lengthy technical setup.