My Approach

Person-Centred Therapy is grounded in the belief that you are more than the labels given to you - by family, friends, workplaces, or society. I'm not here to tell you how you should be living, but to understand how you move through the world, and what meaning your experiences hold for you.

I won't give you homework sheets or generic advice. I trust that you're the expert on yourself. Together we'll explore your inner world at your pace - working through what's holding you back and paying attention to the wider context too: the pressures, expectations, cultural inheritances, and systems that shape how you see yourself.

Healing is deeply personal. But it's not something you have to do alone.

About Me

Things can look fine from the outside, but inside you're unravelling, shifting, or shedding old skin. That's where I come in.

I'm Nilima, a person-centred psychotherapist based in Clapham, South London.

I work with people trying to make sense of life's many wonky turns - questioning a faith, feeling stuck in relationships, juggling cultural expectations, or dealing with grief in all its messy, unpredictable forms. Many of my clients are deep thinkers and feelers who've always felt a bit "other." If that's you, you're not alone.
I have a particular interest in working with people who are childfree - whether by choice, circumstance, or still figuring that out. This is an area of life that's often misunderstood, minimised, or simply not talked about in therapy. I think it deserves proper space.

Before training as a therapist, I worked as a journalist and editor, and later in private equity - where I funded my therapy training while unpicking corporate nonsense with military precision. That path shaped how I listen, how I think about stories and power, and how comfortable I am with complexity and difference.

Therapy with me is collaborative, grounded, and gently challenging when it needs to be. You don't need fixing. But you might need somewhere to figure things out. Tears are welcome, but so is laughter.

I currently have space for in-person sessions on Tuesday daytimes and online sessions on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

I work with

• Companies
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Person Centred Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• ADHD
• Anxiety
• Autism
• Bereavement
• Depression
• Divorce
• Family
• Gender
• Identity Problems
• Mental Health Issues
• Relationships
• Separation
• Sexual Abuse
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Suicide
• Trauma