Anuja Sivakumaran

Anuja Sivakumaran is a BACP-registered counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She works with people facing relationship problems, family conflict, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She also focuses on issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, communication problems, guilt and shame, loneliness, life purpose, and panic attacks.

Anuja uses practical conversation to help clients clarify what feels most difficult right now. Sessions are structured around the client’s immediate concerns and longer-term aims. She listens for patterns that affect mood, relationships and choices, and helps clients try different ways of responding to them.

Her approach involves setting clear goals and testing small changes between sessions. That might look like practising new communication moves, noticing unhelpful thoughts, or pacing activities to rebuild confidence. These steps are intended to be straightforward and repeatable in day-to-day life.

She supports people working through trauma-related symptoms and panic by using recognised therapeutic techniques suited to those problems. With relationship and family concerns she focuses on communication, boundaries and repairing trust where possible. Work on life purpose centres on what matters to the person and practical next steps rather than broad platitudes.

Sessions are conducted in English. Anuja does not accept international clients. Before booking, readers should confirm current session options and scheduling by using the online matching and booking process.

How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions

Anuja draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on thoughts, behaviours and relationships. Cognitive-style approaches help people notice and test unhelpful thinking patterns that maintain low mood or anxiety. These techniques teach simple experiments to try between sessions to see if a different thought or action makes a practical difference.

She also uses relational and attachment-informed methods that look at how early patterns affect current relationships. This can help with communication problems, abandonment worries and rebuilding trust after conflict. For trauma-related problems and panic she employs recognised strategies aimed at reducing distress and increasing a person’s ability to manage symptoms day to day.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She will collaborate with each client to identify the methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. That exploration is practical - trying an approach for a few sessions and reviewing whether it helps.

Confirm the session formats before booking, as the profile does not list them. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around work and life commitments, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Discuss scheduling and any practical adjustments during the matching and booking steps so sessions work with everyday routines.