The Path I Walk
“The way we listen is shaped by where we have loved, lost, and learned to belong.”
I began my journey into psychotherapy in 2007 while teaching secondary science in an inner-city school, a challenging environment that taught me how we as human beings exist, relate and are shaped by culture and context.
Facing my own dissatisfaction and seeking support deepened my curiosity about healing and presence. This led me to train at The Minster Centre (London), where I qualified as an Integrative Psychotherapist. I also worked with organisations such as Terrence Higgins Trust, Place2Be, and The Minster Centre Low-Cost Therapy Service, learning what it means to work across difference and in messy human worlds.
Aashna Counselling & Psychotherapy (Co-Founder)
‘A devotion to Love’
My rich difference and intersectionality means I haven’t always felt seen or understood within the therapy field, both as client, trainee and therapist, an experience for many who come from diverse backgrounds. With that in mind, Shammi Kohli and I founded Aashna, a therapeutic space dedicated to inclusivity and embracing difference & diversity in all its forms.
I’ve also taught psychotherapy foundation courses and delivered training on intersectionality, race, culture, ethnicity and power, not as abstract ideas, but as lived, embodied realities in therapeutic spaces.
As a clinician and co-founder of Aashna, our mission, embracing difference and diversity in all its forms: is not separate from my private practice but the ethical ground from which it grows. Aashna’s work includes the pioneering series Let’s Get Uncomfortable and Aashna +, a social justice service for people who struggle to access long-term, sensitive psychotherapy. I continue to support and supervise through that work.
I work in both English and Gujarati, offering culturally sensitive psychotherapy that honours the relational, emotional, psychological, social, ecological and spiritual dimensions of life.
Qualifications & Training
Psychedelic Practitioner (Synthesis institute 2024-25)
Certificate in Supervision ( The Minster Center, 2021)
MA in Integrative Psychotherapy ( The Minster Centre, 2018)
Gestalt Intensive training in Group Work (Gestalt Centre, 2017)
Diploma in Integrative Counselling (The Minster Centre 2016)
I further develop my skills and knowledge through Continued Professional Development events as required by the UKCP.
Other Qualifications
P.G.C.E Secondary Science (Goldsmiths University)
Bsc (Hons) Applied Biology (Kingston University)
I am an accredited member of UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and work in accordance to the UKCP ethical framework.