Sasha Bates

I’m an integrative psychotherapist working online. I work with a wide range of issues, including stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, identity, relationships, eating disorders, body issues, grief, anger, and more. I have a particular interest in trauma and am trained in Trauma Sensitive Yoga, as well as being a former yoga teacher. Given this background, I work holistically and believe that body and mind effect and respond to each other. Together we can think and feel into whatever might be going on for you across your whole being – in your body, your mind and your emotions. We can explore any of the thoughts, behaviours, habits, patterns and feelings that might be concerning you. We can discuss issues that are affecting your current life, along with your worries for the future, and we can also be curious about how things that happened in the past may be influencing what is going on with you now.

I gained my MA and Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy from The Minster Centre in London in 2015, having been working as a counsellor from 2013. I work online with clients in both short- and long-term frameworks. Before starting my private practice, I worked with a wide range of clients in different settings, including the NHS, further education and voluntary agencies.

I am a registered member of the Â鶹ԭ´´ and abide by their ethical framework. My register number is 80410. I am committed to Continuing Professional Development and to regular supervision. I maintain professional indemnity insurance. I am registered with the ICO, number 0001842222.

As a tutor and facilitator, I offer workshops to therapists and other health professionals, on various subjects including grief, self-regulation, and trauma-sensitive yoga. I am the author of three books, Languages of Loss, A Grief Companion, and Yoga Saved My Life, and I was the creator and original host of podcast, Shrink the Box.