Shoma@southsidecounselling.com
07563 846532
Sessions last 50 minutes and cost £50.
Shoma offers face-to-face, phone and online counselling.
Shoma can offer short and long-term counselling, depending on your needs. Shoma offers a free 20-minute telephone consultation.

About Shoma

“We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves.” – Daniel Siegel.

Shoma is a qualified Psychodynamic Counsellor.  The Psychodynamic approach allows her to offer a safe and confidential space to explore new perspectives on current or recurring issues you may be aware of experiencing in relationships (personal, professional, self) which have maybe left you feeling stuck or unsure of how to make meaningful changes, as you move through life. Sometimes we notice discomfort or pain in the body, which can be ways that suppressed emotions can show up in us.  Shoma aims to build a secure, safe professional therapeutic relationship that will allow you to explore these aspects at your own pace, with a balance of compassion, empathy, collaboration and timely challenge, to help you develop meaningful strategies to care for and support yourself in future, whilst also offering you the option to explore and understand how external influences and relationships could have shaped your ways of being in the world.

Shoma welcomes clients from all backgrounds and offers a supportive, flexible and non-oppressive approach.

Shoma works with a range of issues including:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Sleep problems
• Lack of motivation
• Lack of confidence
• Attachment trauma
• Low self-esteem
• Parenting difficulties
• Adjustment to major life events
• Stress
• Identity
• Loss/Bereavement
• Relationship difficulties or family conflict
• Trauma
• Separation
• Body image
• Childhood trauma and neglect

Shoma works with adolescents/young people and adults.

Training and Experience

Shoma is a qualified psychodynamic therapist, obtaining her Diploma in Human Relations and Counselling from Human Development Scotland and has worked in various settings, including schools and the NHS youth health service. Shoma has participated in various training courses for counselling and supporting young people and children. She also provides tutor support in the counselling training course at Human Development Scotland.

Professional Memberships

Shoma is fully insured and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (00971379) and adheres accordingly to their Code of Ethics.