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Savithri (Savi) Jayaweera, NCPS
- Credentials
- NCPS
- Experience
- 16 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseSelf esteemDepression
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Savithri (Savi) Jayaweera has built a sixteen-year career supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and challenges with self‑esteem and motivation. She holds the NCPS credential and practises in the United Kingdom. Savi aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity and compassion as they take steps towards a more satisfying life.
She describes an integrative approach that draws on several therapeutic traditions. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs, and she tailors conversation and plans to fit individual circumstances.
Background and approach
Her work often includes addressing grief, addiction, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger and workplace stress. Savi has long experience supporting people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and has worked with youth services, community projects and referral agencies. That background informs how she thinks about cultural context, family relationships and the stresses of migration or being far from home.
Her clinical interests include attachment difficulties, abandonment, adoption and foster care, and compassion fatigue. She also offers support for people facing bereavement, intimacy worries, bipolar symptoms, ADHD and career transition. Sessions may draw on practical techniques to spot unhelpful thought patterns and develop tangible coping steps.
People can expect a straightforward, person-focused conversation that centres their goals. Savi works in English, Hindi, Sinhala and Urdu and accepts international clients. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging, with a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
Approaches in online therapy and what they do
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful mental habits and commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes by focusing on what matters rather than on eliminating every difficult feeling.Attachment‑Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they shape current connections and trust. This approach can help when people struggle with intimacy, abandonment fears or communication problems in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, and then suggest methods that fit. Decisions are collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy with video, phone, live chat or messaging makes it easier to fit sessions around work and family life. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a shorter check‑in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make counselling more flexible and accessible for different routines and needs.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu
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