Lushani De Silva

Lushani De Silva is an AASW social worker with five years of clinical experience in Australia. She helps people who feel stuck by addressing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, and questions about life purpose. Sessions are offered in English and Sinhala. Lushani works in a structured, practical way. She listens for what matters most and uses straightforward tools to manage symptoms and make decisions. People bring work doubts, intimacy questions, parenting strain, or the slow ache of having lost direction, and she helps them sort those issues into steps they can act on. Her practice draws from client-centred approaches, cognitive behavioural techniques, dialectical behaviour ideas, existential thinking and EMDR-informed methods. That mix lets her focus on feelings, underlying beliefs, and patterns that keep people stuck. She uses exercises, thought records and behavioural experiments when they help. Sessions also address relationship patterns, communication problems, attachment issues, and sexual culture topics such as BDSM and kink when these are part of a person’s concerns. She works with career confusion, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, body image and codependency in clear, goal-focused sessions. People who start with Lushani are asked to clarify a few goals early on. From there she uses regular check-ins and practical skills to track progress. To begin, readers follow the site steps to match and schedule a first session, and confirm available session formats before booking.

How her therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and helping people clarify their own goals. It’s useful when someone needs space to make sense of life purpose, relationships or values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression and career decision-making. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method used to process past distressing memories and reduce their emotional impact; it is commonly used when trauma or abuse is part of someone’s struggle.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lushani will discuss options and collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences and the issues they bring. That planning happens early and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm the current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Therapists and appropriately qualified professionals can adapt CBT worksheets, DBT skills coaching and EMDR-informed exercises to work in a remote format when agreed with the client.