Sharmi Gowri-Kriszyk, NCPS

Sharmi Gowri-Kriszyk helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar and depression. She also supports coping with life changes, compassion fatigue and ADHD. Sharmi uses straightforward, practical ways to support recovery and calm in everyday life. Sharmi has 21 years of experience in mental health and holds a doctorate-level education in psychology and counselling and psychotherapy. She is listed as an NCPS Therapist - Accredited Member (MNCPS Accred). Her background includes extensive additional training in trauma-focused work. Her practice focuses strongly on trauma, including abuse, neglect, domestic violence, PTSD, complex trauma and developmental trauma. She also works with attachment difficulties and therapeutic parenting concerns, helping people understand how early experiences shape feelings and reactions now. In sessions she aims to build a gentle, non-judgemental space to talk about difficult memories and triggers. She uses a mix of approaches tailored to the person, including work that addresses body-based and brain-based responses to trauma. This can include techniques to help with implicit or body-stored memories and reactions. People who have had previous therapy but still feel stuck are invited to look again at what might be missing in healing. Taking the first step can feel hard, and Sharmi offers steady, informed support through the process.

Practical therapeutic approaches for online work

Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. It helps people make sense of connection issues and trust, and supports new ways of relating to others and to oneself.

Client-centred therapy puts the person at the heart of the work. The therapist listens without judgement and follows the client's pace, helping people find their own solutions and build self-understanding.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together. It offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns and to manage anxiety, low mood or problematic behaviours.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work together with the client to pick methods that match needs, goals and personal preferences. This is a collaborative process that can change as therapy progresses.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by avoiding travel or allowing shorter check-ins during a workday. If you want to know which session formats are offered, please confirm current options before booking. Many people find remote sessions help them maintain continuity of care and apply what they learn directly in daily situations.