Shruti Jain

In our sessions, I aim to create a confidential, compassionate, and non-judgemental space where you can slow down and make sense of what you’re experiencing. Through attentive listening and gentle questioning, I invite you to explore how you have come to live the life you live — the choices you’ve made, the beliefs you hold, and the relationships that have shaped you. Therapy becomes a shared exploration of what it means to live authentically in the face of the many pressures, roles, and contradictions of modern life. My work is also informed by systemic therapy, which means I pay close attention to the wider relational and cultural contexts that influence our inner worlds. Many of the struggles we face — around body image, success, belonging, or love — are shaped by family dynamics, societal expectations, and cultural narratives about who we should be. Together, we might explore how inherited roles or intergenerational patterns affect your relationships or sense of self, and how you can begin to loosen what no longer serves you. I work with a wide range of issues, including anxiety, depression, anger, eating difficulties, relationship challenges, addictions, self-esteem, grief, and loss. For clients experiencing eating or body-related distress, existential work offers a way to move beyond control or shame, and instead reflect on the meanings attached to nourishment, perfection, and worth. With anger or conflict, we might look beneath the surface to what the emotion is protecting — unmet needs, boundaries, or grief. And when working with depression or burnout, I often help clients reconnect with the values, relationships, and creative impulses that can restore vitality and direction. At the heart of existential therapy lies an invitation to take responsibility for how we choose to live, even when we cannot control our circumstances. It recognises that much of our suffering arises from the tension between the world as it is and how we wish it to be. In therapy, we learn to tolerate that tension, to face the realities of death, limitation, and uncertainty, while also recognising our capacity for love, connection, and transformation. I find that as clients develop the courage to face these truths, they often discover unexpected strength, clarity, and compassion — both for themselves and for others. Grief and loss hold a special place in my work. I have spent several years exploring the many forms of loss that shape our human experience — not only through bereavement, but also through transitions, endings, and identity shifts. The global pandemic, in particular, illuminated how fragile and interconnected we are, and how essential meaning and belonging become in times of isolation and limitation. My own journey through grief has deepened my respect for the ways in which love and mortality coexist, and how therapy can offer a space to honour both. My therapeutic style is relational and collaborative. I do not see myself as an expert with answers, but as a companion walking alongside you as we make sense of your story together. Each session is a meeting between two people — a space where you can reflect, question, and experiment with new ways of being. The aim is not to achieve perfection, but to live more consciously, to make choices aligned with what truly matters to you, and to cultivate an inner steadiness amid life’s inevitable uncertainties. I offer a complimentary 20-minute introductory call so you can ask questions and get a sense of how we might work together.