Sharmi Gowri-Kriszyk

Sharmi Gowri-Kriszyk is a counsellor with 21 years of experience who supports people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar and depression. She also works with those coping with life changes, compassion fatigue and ADHD. She uses a trauma-informed approach and draws on a range of therapy styles to help people move forward.

Sharmi trained to doctorate level in psychology and counselling/psychotherapy and is an NCPS Therapist - Accredited Member (MNCPS Accred). She has undertaken extensive training in trauma and works with experiences such as abuse, neglect, domestic violence, PTSD, complex trauma and developmental trauma. She also supports people dealing with attachment difficulties and therapeutic parenting concerns.

Her sessions aim to be open and non-judgemental. She helps people name triggers, notice body-based responses, and work with memories that feel stuck. Methods include talking therapies alongside body-based and brain-based approaches to post-traumatic recovery and growth.

Sharmi’s practice pays attention to both overt symptoms and covert patterns. She may work on implicit or body memories alongside more conscious material. The intention is gradual change rather than quick fixes, paced to the individual’s readiness.

Sharmi works with people nationally and internationally from the United Kingdom. She communicates in English, Danish and Tamil and uses a mix of therapeutic approaches such as attachment-based, client-centred, cognitive behavioural, dialectical behaviour and EMDR informed methods.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships influence current patterns. In online sessions this looks like exploring connection needs, safety in relationships, and repeating new ways of relating through conversation and reflective exercises. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try practical changes in behaviour; it is often used for anxiety, low mood and coping with stressful life changes and can include simple homework tasks between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss different methods and agree a plan that fits the client’s goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and can change as progress is made.

Confirm the available session formats before booking as the biography does not specify formats here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also make access simpler for international clients who wish to work with a UK-based therapist. Registered or accredited professionals tailor their methods to the online setting so that practical tools, breathing or grounding exercises, and cognitive tasks can be used effectively over distance.