Mandika Shah-Dhillon, BACP

Mandika Shah-Dhillon offers support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, low mood, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, and career or identity worries. She is named in the first paragraph to make it clear who the profile describes. She accepts clients in the United Kingdom and works in English.

Mandika trained in Person-Centred Counselling and the Psychotherapeutic Relationship at the University of Warwick and holds BACP registration. She is completing an MSc in Psychology of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Her background includes work in independent practice, university mental health, addiction support and crisis roles over four years.

Her style is warm and steady. She aims to create a calm, relational space where people can slow down and make sense of what feels tangled. Sessions begin gently, even when someone cannot name their struggle clearly, and progress at a pace that feels manageable.

Mandika works integratively from person-centred foundations and draws on trauma-aware practice, cognitive and mindfulness-based ideas, and psychodynamic thinking. In practice this means listening closely, noticing patterns, and offering practical ways to try things differently between sessions when helpful.

People come to her to feel more steady, to understand themselves better, and to talk through difficult events without judgement. If it feels like the right time to start, the next step is to complete the site matching process and arrange a first appointment.

How her therapy approaches translate online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding each person from their own view, offering acceptance and careful listening to help people feel heard and begin to change. This approach helps with low mood, relationship concerns and identity questions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at habits of thinking and behaviour and offers practical steps to try between sessions to reduce symptoms like anxiety or sleep problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches ways to notice thoughts and bodily states without reacting, which can help with stress, rumination and compassion fatigue.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels comfortable, and together they will decide which methods to draw on as therapy progresses. This is a collaborative process that can be adjusted over time.

Details about exact session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around everyday life, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins when a shorter conversation is helpful. Registered or accredited professionals generally adapt exercises, mindfulness practices and CBT tasks so they are practical to use between online meetings and within day-to-day routines.