Integrated Psychotherapist Aysha Sharma
Psychotherapist and Trainer
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” said Aristotle. The inquisitiveness of an 8-year-old me as ‘Why people behave the way they behave’ eventually led me on my life path of my helping profession.
The passing on of my maternal grandfather Mr Jeevan Lal Joshi, left a feeling of displaced, he was ‘HOME’. Our life lessons come through the family we are born into. My fond memories with him comfort me.
In retrospect, when I look back it was this WHY that led me to observe ‘Why people behave the way they behave’ and started my quest to observe and understand people around me.
I am able to align with the word Integrated Psychotherapist, as having done my Masters in Psychotherapy and Counselling, since then, having integrated various helping modalities which I have been able to apply in my helping profession of my 18 years of practice in therapy like, Clinical Hypnosis, Systemic Family Constellation, Integral Eye Movement Therapy, Provocative Change Works, Transactional Analysis, Client-Centred Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy, Gestalt, Dream Interpretation, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Art Therapy, Handwriting Analysis, Integrated Energy Therapy (Crystals, 6th Sense Healing, Shamanic Practices, Reiki). In my work with children, adolescent and adults, I further continued my process of upgrading my skills of any new modality that I feel drawn to.
My approach is free-flowing and pragmatic, and interweave the learnt modalities in my therapy work.
I have attempted to weave my learnings and experience of life with daily practice of Vipassana, Yoga, Shamanism, and Ayurveda in the fabric of my work and everyday life.
It has been the modalities learnt and having them applied on myself, have ‘held’ me together during my life lessons, its only when parts of our personalities are healed and integrated, we become one whole again.
My journey with my work has been my homecoming.
I am grateful to my parents Jayshree and Radheshyam Bharadwaj, my ancestors through whom life has come to me. My teachers who held me during my course learnings. My clients who had trust to open and gave me the permission to walk along with them. My son who understood the word confidentiality from the time he was 3 years old, and respected my workspace.