Devika Dhadhal, PACFA
Supportive counsellor focusing on relationships and somatic awareness
About Devika
Devika Dhadhal is a PACFA counsellor with seven years' experience supporting people through relationship and parenting strains. She focuses on listening deeply so clients feel heard before any steps are taken. Sessions aim to help people untangle patterns, manage strong feelings, and find clearer ways forward.
Devika brings a practical, down-to-earth style to therapy. She encourages straightforward conversation about what is happening now, and notices the feelings and body sensations that come with those stories.
Background and approach
Somatic ideas inform her work by helping people tune into bodily signals alongside thoughts and emotions. Her background includes a range of approaches that she uses to suit each person's needs. That might mean practising simple strategies to manage panic, exploring attachment patterns that affect relationships, or using structured exercises to change unhelpful thinking.
She keeps explanations plain and offers tools people can try between sessions. Devika often helps people dealing with anger, ADHD-related challenges, family conflict, and the strain of caregiving. She also supports those working through guilt, shame, or separation.
Clients can expect a calm, respectful space where their experiences are taken seriously. Work is collaborative and paced to each person. Devika helps people set achievable steps, build clearer communication, and feel more grounded in daily life.
Her aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Devika combines somatic thinking, attachment-based ideas and client-centred work to support people online. Somatic work emphasises noticing bodily sensations and how they link to feelings, which can help with panic, stress and grounding in the moment. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication, useful for relationship and parenting concerns. Client-centred therapy focuses on empathic listening and meeting the person where they are, helping people feel understood before practical steps are suggested.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Devika discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods as sessions progress. She aims to blend body awareness, relational insight and practical strategies so the plan fits each person's needs.
Online formats support this work through flexible options: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging for shorter check-ins or written reflection. These choices make it easier to maintain regular contact, practise tools between sessions, and fit therapy into busy schedules while working with appropriately qualified or registered therapists.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
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- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Gujarati, Hindi