About Sharmi
Sharmi Gowri-Kriszyk is a counsellor with 21 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction and trauma. She supports people facing grief, parenting and family strain, intimacy concerns, sleeping and eating difficulties, anger, low self esteem, bipolar and depression. She also works with ADHD, compassion fatigue and major life changes.
Her approach combines body-aware methods with talking therapy. She uses somatic techniques alongside attachment-based and client-centred work to address how the body holds stress and memory.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy ideas are woven in when practical skills and emotion regulation are needed. Sharmi draws on many years in mental health and trauma work. She is listed as an NCPS Therapist - Accredited Member (MNCPS Accred).
That registration is shown as part of her professional background. In sessions she aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can name feelings, notice bodily responses, and try new ways of coping. Practical exercises, grounding and paced processing are offered when they fit the person’s needs.
She has worked with issues such as attachment difficulties, adoption and foster care, abandonment, dissociation and complex trauma. People who have had prior therapy but still feel stuck may find the blend of body-based and talk-focused work helpful. Sharmi offers services in English, Danish and Tamil and accepts clients from outside the United Kingdom.
If you are ready to explore next steps, the usual booking process on the site can guide you to schedule sessions.
Approaches that combine body and relational work
Somatic work focuses on how the body holds stress and trauma. It uses simple body-based techniques - such as breath awareness, grounding and noticing sensations - to help reduce tension and interrupt habitual stress patterns. This can be useful for people who carry strong physical reactions after trauma or during anxiety.Attachment-based therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they shape present-day trust, closeness and conflict. It helps people understand their relational responses and try safer, more satisfying ways of connecting with others.
Client-centred therapy offers a listening, non-judgemental space where the person sets the pace. The counsellor reflects what is said and follows the person's priorities, which can help people feel heard and decide what to work on next.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The counsellor will talk through goals, preferences and how symptoms show up in everyday life. Together they will try methods that feel manageable and adjust them as the work progresses.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also means people outside the therapist's local area can work together, though you should confirm which session formats the therapist currently offers before booking. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt body-aware and attachment-focused methods for online work, using guided practices, breathing exercises and reflective conversation to help people build coping skills and process difficult experiences.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Danish, Tamil