Aaradhya Srivastava
Gentle psychodynamic counselling for life challenges
About Aaradhya
Aaradhya Srivastava works from a psychodynamic and client-centred perspective to help people make sense of stress, anxiety, trauma and major life changes. She aims to build a trusting relationship where clients can feel heard and begin to untangle painful memories and repeated patterns. Aaradhya speaks English and Hindi and practises in the United Kingdom.
Her work focuses on understanding how past experiences shape current feelings and behaviour. Sessions often look at attachment, abandonment, communication and family of origin issues that feed into low self-esteem or relationship struggles.
Background and approach
She also has experience supporting people affected by sexual violence and domestic violence, and those coping with caregiving stress or body image concerns. Aaradhya draws on psychodynamic ideas to explore unconscious patterns and on client-centred principles to keep the process grounded in the client’s experience.
She encourages curiosity about why certain reactions arise and helps people name feelings that have been hard to express. The aim is to help clients feel steadier and more like themselves over time. Her background includes work at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre and postgraduate study in counselling and interpersonal dialogue.
Aaradhya has three years of clinical experience and is a member of the BACP. People come to her when they want to understand recurring problems, manage anxiety or rebuild after difficult events. She works collaboratively, moving at a pace that feels manageable for each person.
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How Aaradhya works
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Sessions & fees
How psychodynamic and client-centred work online can help
Psychodynamic therapy looks at how past experiences and unconscious patterns shape your feelings and reactions today. Online sessions give space to notice recurring themes - for example attachment or family of origin issues - and to gently connect those themes to current difficulties like anxiety or low self-esteem.Client-centred therapy focuses on your experience in the moment and prioritises being heard without judgement. In an online setting this translates to sessions that follow your pace, emphasise empathy and help you name and understand emotions that can feel confusing or overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Aaradhya will discuss goals and preferences with each person and together decide whether to emphasise psychodynamic exploration, client-centred support, or a mix of both. This collaborative planning helps match the therapy to what the person needs and wants to change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls suit in-depth conversations and non-verbal cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or when writing helps you express things more clearly. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity across weeks.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Hindi
