Aishwarya Kulkarni

Aishwarya Kulkarni is a psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom with four years of clinical experience. She holds BACP accreditation, and she aims to create a space where people can be honest about how they feel without needing to hold everything together. Aishwarya prefers meeting people in conversation and focuses on listening first, rather than offering quick fixes.

Her style is warm, collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort. She uses person-centred ways of working alongside psychodynamic ideas to look at how early life can shape current patterns. She also draws on trauma-focused thinking and motivational interviewing tools when those approaches suit a person's concerns.

Aishwarya helps people talk through a wide range of issues. These include anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy problems, grief, addiction, stress, anger, self-esteem and challenges linked to neurodiversity or trauma. She also supports people dealing with career shifts, caring responsibilities, chronic illness and life transitions.

Sessions are conducted with attention to what the client needs in the moment, with gentle exploration of past experiences when that feels useful. She keeps the work practical and grounded, aiming to help people develop ways to manage day-to-day distress and difficult feelings.

Outside work she paints with pastels and acrylics and practises Kathak dance, both of which she says help her stay connected to emotion and creativity. If the approach sounds right, people are invited to make contact when they feel ready.

How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions

Aishwarya draws on attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in relationships and how early bonds can influence feelings today. This approach can help when people struggle with trust, closeness or repeating relationship patterns.

She also works from a client-centred perspective, which means sessions begin with careful listening and follow what matters most to the person in front of her. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs support making a change; it focuses on exploring ambivalence and finding personal reasons to move forward.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Aishwarya will talk with clients about their goals, needs and preferences and then choose or blend methods that feel most helpful. That choice is collaborative and may change as therapy progresses.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking since the biography does not list them explicitly. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around daily life, reduce travel time and allow check-ins from more convenient locations. It can also allow shorter or more flexible appointments when that better matches a person's routine.