Psychotherapy

I gained my MA and Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy from The Minster Centre in London in 2015, having previously been working as a counsellor from 2013. I work online with clients in both short- and long-term frameworks. Before starting my private practice, I worked with a wide range of clients in different settings, including the NHS, further education and voluntary agencies.

I offer a non-judgmental, safe and confidential space where together we can explore the thoughts, behaviours and feelings that might be concerning you. We can discuss issues that are affecting your current life, along with your worries for the future, and we can also be curious about how things that happened in the past may be influencing what is going on with you now.

As a former yoga teacher (BWY and Yoga Alliance qualified), I work holistically and believe that body and mind effect and respond to each other. If you are interested, we can discuss including some somatic practices in your sessions, but this is of course voluntary.

I work with a wide range of issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, identity, relationships, eating disorders, body issues, grief and anger, to name but a few. I have a particular interest in trauma and in 2013 I took the Boston Trauma Centre’s 5-day residential Trauma Sensitive Yoga training led by Dave Emerson and Bessel Van der Kolk.

I am currently enrolled in the Augmented Psychotherapy Training with the MIND Institute in Berlin and am therefore willing and able to work with those who are preparing for and integrating therapeutic psychedelic experiences. I do not provide, nor facilitate, psychedelic experiences myself.

As a tutor and facilitator, I offer workshops to therapists and other health professionals, on various subjects including grief, self-regulation, and trauma-sensitive yoga.

I am a registered member of the BACP and abide by their ethical framework.

If you would like more information about starting therapy, or if you are interested in any of my talks and workshops, please fill in the form below:

“I have recently participated in a workshop about loss with Sasha Bates ahead of the publication of her book, Languages of Loss.
As a therapist, working with bereaved clients, I wanted to learn what is often the hardest challenge of all: finding the language around grief, death, loss and bereavement.

Sasha shone a tender and hopeful light through the dark clouds of this painful topic. In her respectful, humorous, intelligent and honest manner she deeply engaged a room full of people who laughed, cried, opened up and shared their experiences too.

Sasha taught us not to shy away from the topic and to invite any feelings and emotions into the dialogue. She shared with us her own experience of coping with loss through poems and intimate personal journaling.

I want to wish you Sasha good luck with your book and in your healing and inspirational journey.”

Sharon Kaplansky, psychotherapist