Sarvin Afarinesh, BACP

Sarvin Afarinesh brings a warm, engaging presence to therapeutic work and focuses on helping people reconnect with themselves to discover what they need for a more fulfilling life. She works from a multicultural, integrative, and intuitive perspective that blends psychodynamic, humanistic, existential, somatic and body-centred approaches with creativity and clinical intuition. In practice this means attention is paid to thoughts, feelings, bodily experience, and behaviour with curiosity and compassion, while exploring relationships - both with self and others - core values, needs, and the patterns that keep someone feeling stuck.

Sarvin values creative expression as part of the therapeutic process and may invite drawing, writing, working with objects, or imaginative techniques where appropriate. Her clinical toolkit includes client-centred work, existential inquiry, psychodynamic exploration, solution-focused strategies, trauma-focused and somatic methods, Internal Family Systems ideas, and systemic approaches. This range allows her to tailor the process to each person’s needs and the issues they bring, including identity, culture, trauma and relational concerns.

She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy from the Minster Centre, a Diploma in Integrative Counselling, a Graduate Diploma in Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society, and a BA in Psychology. Additional qualifications include certificates in Counselling Skills, Art Therapy, Integrative Arts, and Couples Counselling. Sarvin is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is accredited by the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) - professional bodies for counsellors and psychotherapists in the United Kingdom.

Her clinical interests cover a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, addictions, relationships, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, LGBT and family matters, grief and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting, anger, career problems, bipolar and depression, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also works with more specific areas like attachment and abandonment issues, body image, chronic pain and illness, codependency, dissociation, domestic violence, and substance-related problems.

Sarvin offers online sessions by video and voice call and works in both English and Persian. She is not currently accepting new clients.