Sarah Sivasundaram
Registered Member MÌÇÐĹÙÍø
Contact information
- Phone number
- 07773303142
Therapist - Barnet
Features
- Flexible hours available
- Available for home visits
- Concessionary rates
Availability
Face-to-face and online sessions during the day and evenings available. Please contact me to check availability.
About me and my therapy practice
Do you feel anxious, disconnected, and stuck in relationships or life, as if others understand something you don’t?
Imagine feeling more connected in your relationships, sleeping peacefully without racing thoughts, and experiencing greater self-acceptance, confidence, and contentment—free from perfectionism and self-doubt?
I understand what it feels like to struggle because I’ve been there too. I now support adults through one-to-one counselling in Barnet and online, offering a way through when life feels like a constant battle.
My private practice aims to help you move beyond anxiety and unhelpful patterns to reconnect with yourself and create more meaningful relationships with family, partners, and friends.
My work is guided by three core pillars: building a safe, trusting therapeutic relationship, developing self-awareness and self-compassion, and supporting clients to gain confidence to make meaningful change. Therapy may be open-ended or focused on specific goals, always respecting the client’s individual process.
My personal experience of neurodivergence and ADHD gives me an awareness and understanding of individuals living with or individuals living alongside this neurodivergent umbrella. My neuroaffirmative approach offers tools and helpful strategies to support clients and family members.
Alongside private practice, I work within NHS Talking Therapies and at Mind Barnet/Enfield. My work is grounded in ongoing training, clinical experience, and evidence-based practice.
Practice description
My areas of expertise include: anxiety, low mood/depression, understanding a neurodivergent diagnosis, combatting low self-esteem, examining your harsh inner critic, stress, understanding your anger, maternal mental health, parenting, domestic abuse and recovery work, recovery from being in a relationship with a narcissist, childhood abuse, bereavement and loss, career transitions, life transitions, boarding school syndrome and sleep issues.
Key aspects of my way of working
Integrative provides a structured, integrative form of psychotherapy that combines elements of CBT and psychodynamic (looking at the past). Sessions might involve cognitive, behavioural, and experiential exercises to break these patterns on a deep emotional level.
Trust your curiosity!
Your inner voice, the voice that pops up when we haven’t achieved, haven’t completed, or haven’t communicated, might be a harsh inner critic. Do you imagine how life might be if that voice were kind, forgiving and full of love? The fact you are here reading this means there is a part of you curious to change. That is the part you could grow in therapy alongside healing wounds from the past. Curiosity is a superpower.
Is therapy scary?
Therapy can be a scary prospect. What do I say? How can I be vulnerable with a stranger? Will it work? These are all normal questions. I intend to, over a few sessions, start to create a trusting working relationship. If a client doesn't know where to start, I can helpfully prompt and guide.
I offer a 30 minute free one-off consultation online or on the telephone and prior to our first formal session I email out a therapeutic contract outlining my policies and procedures and a document asking for client contact details/GP details which the client signs. I adhere to the ÌÇÐĹÙÍø ethical framework.
My first session
In the first session, usually, the client goes into what they are hoping to achieve in therapy in more detail. There is no formal assessment in the session, time is used as the client wishes and I hold in mind any gaps of information and aim to cover these informally during the session. Building rapport and a therapeutic relationship is paramount to the work I do with clients and these first few sessions are aimed to let the client settle and go at their own pace. This looks different for every client.
Other useful details regarding starting:
I offer a free 30 minute consultation session either online or on the telephone so that the client and myself can see if we might work therapeutically together. In this shorter session I also ask some questions about the client's history and what has brought them to counselling.
The first session and subsequent sessions will cost £80. Details of confidentiality, risk assessment, payment procedures, cancellation policy, holidays and absences are outlined in my counselling contract which the client receives when we have agreed to work together.
What I can help with
Abuse, ADD / ADHD, Addictions, Anger management, Anxiety, Autism spectrum, Bereavement, Cancer, Child related issues, Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME, Cultural issues, Depression, Identity issues, Infertility, LGBTQ+ counselling, Loss, Menopause, Men's issues, Mood disorder, Neurodiversity, Obsessions, OCD, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy related issues, Redundancy, Relationships, Self esteem, Sex-related issues, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Spirituality, Stress, Substance Dependency, Trauma, Women's issues, Work related issues
Types of therapy
Behavioural, CBT, Cognitive, Creative therapy, Emotionally focused therapy, Existential, Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative, Interpersonal, Person centred, Phenomenological, Psychodynamic, Relational, Solution focused brief therapy, Transactional analysis, Transpersonal
Clients I work with
Adults, EAP, Older adults, Trainees, Young people
How I deliver therapy
Long term sessions, Long-term face-to-face work, Online therapy, Short term sessions, Short-term face-to-face work, Telephone therapy, Time-limited
Therapist - Barnet
Features
- Flexible hours available
- Available for home visits
- Concessionary rates
Availability
Face-to-face and online sessions available both during the day and evenings. Please contact me to check availability.
About me and my therapy practice
Do you feel anxious, disconnected, and stuck in relationships or life, as if others understand something you don’t?
Imagine feeling more connected in your relationships, sleeping peacefully without racing thoughts, and experiencing greater self-acceptance, confidence, and contentment—free from perfectionism and self-doubt?
I understand what it feels like to struggle because I’ve been there too. I now support adults through one-to-one counselling in Barnet and online, offering a way through when life feels like a constant battle.
My private practice aims to help you move beyond anxiety and unhelpful patterns to reconnect with yourself and create more meaningful relationships with family, partners, and friends.
My work is guided by three core pillars: building a safe, trusting therapeutic relationship, developing self-awareness and self-compassion, and supporting clients to gain confidence to make meaningful change. Therapy may be open-ended or focused on specific goals, always respecting the client’s individual process.
My personal experience of neurodivergence and ADHD gives me an awareness and understanding of individuals living with or individuals living alongside this neurodivergent umbrella. My neuroaffirmative approach offers tools and helpful strategies to support clients and family members.
Alongside private practice, I work within NHS Talking Therapies and at Mind Barnet/Enfield. My work is grounded in ongoing training, clinical experience, and evidence-based practice.
Practice description
My areas of expertise include: anxiety, low mood/depression, understanding a neurodivergent diagnosis, combatting low self-esteem, examining your harsh inner critic, stress, understanding your anger, maternal mental health, parenting, domestic abuse and recovery work, recovery from being in a relationship with a narcissist, childhood abuse, bereavement and loss, career transitions, life transitions, boarding school syndrome and sleep issues.
Key aspects of my way of working
Integrative provides a structured, integrative form of psychotherapy that combines elements of CBT and psychodynamic (looking at the past). Sessions might involve cognitive, behavioural, and experiential exercises to break these patterns on a deep emotional level.
Trust your curiosity!
Your inner voice, the voice that pops up when we haven’t achieved, haven’t completed, or haven’t communicated, might be a harsh inner critic. Do you imagine how life might be if that voice were kind, forgiving and full of love? The fact you are here reading this means there is a part of you curious to change. That is the part you could grow in therapy alongside healing wounds from the past. Curiosity is a superpower.
Is therapy scary?
Therapy can be a scary prospect. What do I say? How can I be vulnerable with a stranger? Will it work? These are all normal questions. I intend to, over a few sessions, start to create a trusting working relationship. If a client doesn't know where to start, I can helpfully prompt and guide.
I offer a 30 minute free one-off consultation online or on the telephone and prior to our first formal session I email out a therapeutic contract outlining my policies and procedures and a document asking for client contact details/GP details which the client signs. I adhere to the ÌÇÐĹÙÍø ethical framework.
My first session
In the first session, usually, the client goes into what they are hoping to achieve in therapy in more detail. There is no formal assessment in the session, time is used as the client wishes and I hold in mind any gaps of information and aim to cover these informally during the session. Building rapport and a therapeutic relationship is paramount to the work I do with clients and these first few sessions are aimed to let the client settle and go at their own pace. This looks different for every client.
Other useful details regarding starting:
I offer a free 30 minute consultation session either online or on the telephone so that the client and myself can see if we might work therapeutically together. In this shorter session I also ask some questions about the client's history and what has brought them to counselling.
The first session and subsequent sessions will cost £80. Details of confidentiality, risk assessment, payment procedures, cancellation policy, holidays and absences are outlined in my counselling contract which the client receives when we have agreed to work together.
What I can help with
Abuse, ADD / ADHD, Addictions, Anger management, Anxiety, Autism spectrum, Bereavement, Cancer, Child related issues, Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME, Cultural issues, Depression, Health related issues, Identity issues, Infertility, LGBTQ+ counselling, Loss, Menopause, Men's issues, Mood disorder, Neurodiversity, Obsessions, OCD, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy related issues, Redundancy, Relationships, Self esteem, Self-harm, Sex-related issues, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Spirituality, Stress, Substance Dependency, Trauma, Women's issues, Work related issues
Types of therapy
Behavioural, CBT, Cognitive, Creative therapy, Emotionally focused therapy, Existential, Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative, Interpersonal, Person centred, Phenomenological, Psychodynamic, Relational, Solution focused brief therapy, Transactional analysis
Clients I work with
Adults, EAP, Older adults, Trainees, Young people
How I deliver therapy
Long term sessions, Long-term face-to-face work, Online therapy, Short term sessions, Short-term face-to-face work, Telephone therapy, Time-limited