About Dharini Psychology
Hi there, my name is Dharini, and I am so looking forward to meeting you.
From both my professional and personal experience, I understand how vulnerable sharing the deepest parts of your life with someone can feel. Because of this, it is deeply important to me to create a space where you feel safe, comfortable, and genuinely seen.
I believe that to feel truly connected in therapy, you deserve my most authentic self too. You can expect compassion, curiosity, humour, warmth, and a gentle, relaxed approach to sessions.
It is important to me that you know I am here to help you feel understood, supported, and less alone. I am on your side, and I feel genuinely grateful to walk alongside people in their healing journey.
How I Work
Through my journey as a Clinical Psychologist, I have found a passion for Schema Therapy and attachment based therapies. This form of therapy helps us understand how our early relationships and life experiences shape the core beliefs we hold about ourselves, others, and the world around us.
Sometimes, these early experiences can leave us carrying deeply rooted feelings of shame, abandonment, defectiveness, or not being “enough,” even when logically we know those beliefs are not fully true. I know how painful and confusing it can feel when our mind says one thing, but our emotions tell us another.
Together, we will gently explore these patterns and work toward understanding not just what is happening for you, but why. My approach focuses on helping you access and process emotions safely and steadily, while building self-awareness, self-trust, and self-compassion along the way.
I often integrate attachment-based and experiential approaches to help clients move beyond simply intellectualising their experiences and instead begin creating deeper emotional change and healing.
If you relate to this…
You may resonate with this work if you often find yourself experiencing:
• Fear of abandonment or rejection
• Anxiety in relationships or difficulty trusting others
• Low self-worth or harsh self-criticism
• People-pleasing and difficulty setting boundaries
• Feeling emotionally overwhelmed or “too sensitive”
• Loneliness, disconnection, or feeling misunderstood
• Difficulty breaking repetitive patterns in relationships
• Anxiety or depression
• Trauma or painful early life experiences
• Grief and loss
• Borderline Personality Disorder traits or emotional intensity
• A desire to reconnect with yourself on a deeper level
A holistic approach
Often, we enter survival modes due to our early experiences and learn to disconnect from ourselves through avoidance, overthinking, people-pleasing, or constantly staying busy.
I believe healing involves more than just understanding our thoughts.
Our body and nervous system carry so much of our emotional experience too. Spending time slowing down, reconnecting with ourselves, and learning to regulate our nervous system can help us feel more grounded, safe, and connected to who we truly are underneath survival patterns.
As our body often responds to cues before our mind does, I have found that reconnecting with our emotions and physical experiences, not just our thoughts, can strengthen intuition, self-confidence, and self-trust.
I also value the importance of meaning, spirituality, connection, and authenticity in the healing process, and aim to support each person as a whole individual rather than reducing them to symptoms or diagnoses.
The therapeutic relationship
One of the most important aspects of therapy is the relationship we build together. Therapy is never a one-size-fits-all approach because humans are complex, and your needs matter deeply to me.
So often, I have seen that when people begin to experience safety, trust, and genuine connection within the therapy space, this gradually begins to flow into other areas of their lives too.
My hope is that therapy feels like a collaborative space where you can show up exactly as you are, without judgement, pressure, or needing to have everything figured out.
You do not have to navigate things alone anymore.