Ivana Sharp, BACP

Ivana Sharp is an integrative therapist accredited and based in the United Kingdom, with a decade of experience offering one-to-one work in private practice. She holds BACP registration - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and completed an Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling in 2015. Ivana brings an empathic and responsive style to sessions, adapting to what each person brings whether they present with a specific concern such as anxiety or depression or a more diffuse sense that something feels out of balance.

Her integrative training combines humanistic and psychodynamic perspectives with cognitive behavioural approaches and mindfulness practice, allowing her to tailor methods to the needs of each individual. She has a particular interest in neurodiversity, the connection between body and mind, and issues related to climate and ecological concerns. Ivana aims to support people in finding practical, personally meaningful solutions while encouraging greater aliveness, centredness and self-empowerment.

Therapy with Ivana is collaborative and relational. She works alongside clients to explore their knowledge and experience rather than offering ready-made answers, and she attends carefully to the therapeutic relationship as a source of understanding and change. She maintains clear boundaries and a consistent therapeutic frame so that deeper exploration can take place with steadiness. Ongoing mindfulness practice informs her work and she values experiential learning through workshops, peer support, personal therapy and supervision. Her background also includes teaching and work with children with special educational needs, and roles as a bereavement counsellor for Brent Bereavement Service and as an integrative therapist within a short-term counselling service at a leading mental health charity.