Savithri (Savi) Jayaweera, NCPS

Savithri (Savi) Jayaweera is a counsellor with 16 years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS and has provided psychological support across a range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma, and motivation. Savi emphasises respect, sensitivity and compassion in her work and adapts conversations and plans to each person’s needs.

Her background is integrative. She combines psychodynamic, person-centred, gestalt, transactional analysis and cognitive behavioural methods to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns. She also draws on transpersonal ideas that consider spiritual and existential concerns when relevant.

Savi has worked extensively with Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and in youth services including the YMCA. Her professional roles have included youth worker, counsellor and project coordinator, and she has collaborated with organisations such as NHS, addiction services and women's support hubs.

She has specific experience supporting people coping with domestic violence, sexual abuse, HIV and bereavement. Savi also works with concerns around relationships, self‑esteem, addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting stress, bipolar disorder and ADHD among other issues.

Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, Sinhala and Urdu. International clients are accepted. To begin, users follow the continue button on this profile and complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule according to therapist availability.

How different approaches are used in online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then commit to actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with practical experiments and new behaviours; it often helps with mood, sleep and anxiety concerns. Attachment‑based ideas look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses, which can be helpful for intimacy and communication difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will ask about goals, history and daily life, and together they will decide which methods to try. That plan can change over time as progress and new needs emerge, making the process collaborative and flexible.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and to keep continuity when people are travelling or living abroad. It also lets a person choose quieter surroundings, avoid travel time and use formats that match their energy on a given day. The biography does not specify session formats here, so confirm current session options before booking. The focus online is the same as in person: clear goals, practical tools and steady support to help people manage jealousy, relationship struggles and related concerns.