Shushanik Gasparyan, BACP

Shushanik Gasparyan is a counsellor who focuses on thoughts and everyday habits to help people find more balance. She uses a warm, person-centred way of working to make talking about difficult feelings easier. Sessions are aimed at helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression and changes in life. She offers support for concerns such as trauma, relationships, parenting pressures and issues with sleep or eating.

Shushanik has eight years of experience in helping people through emotional difficulties. Her background includes agency work as a psychologist and collaboration with international organisations on child protection projects. That experience informs how she notices patterns in thinking and behaviour that cause ongoing distress.

Her approach draws on Client-Centred Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Psychodynamic Therapy. In practice this means she listens closely, helps people tell their story differently, and looks at how past experiences shape present habits and feelings. Sessions focus on small, practical steps as well as longer-term understanding.

People tend to come for help with anxiety, low mood, self-esteem and coping with life changes, but she also supports those facing grief, addiction concerns, intimacy issues and obsessive thoughts. She can work with multicultural and multilingual backgrounds and pays attention to individual cultural context.

Sessions are conducted in English and Armenian. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability through the Start Therapy button. Costs vary with location and the subscription model can be cancelled at any time.

Approaches that guide online counselling conversations

Client-Centred Therapy emphasises a non-judgemental, empathetic presence where the person leads the pace of conversation; it is useful for building self-worth and feeling heard. Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from their problems by retelling life events and noticing alternative stories; this can be useful for tackling issues like low self-esteem, relationship patterns and feelings of emptiness.

Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past experiences and repeated patterns influence current thoughts and habits, which can help when people want to understand why certain reactions keep recurring. Together these approaches allow practical short-term goals alongside deeper understanding of long-standing patterns.

Finding the right fit is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and will adapt methods together with each person. This is a collaborative process rather than a fixed prescription.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow people to choose quieter surroundings. It also allows shorter check-ins and flexible scheduling that can be easier around work, parenting or study commitments. Registered or accredited professionals can help set a rhythm that fits everyday life while working on thoughts and everyday habits.