About Ami Thaker

Ami trained in counselling psychology and has spent her career working with the full range of what people bring to a therapy room — the panic attack before a presentation, the marriage that has gone quiet, the grief after a failed IVF cycle, the ten-year-old who has stopped wanting to go to school, the man who has not slept properly since an accident three years ago.

What connects that range is method. Ami works from evidence-based frameworks — principally Cognitive Behavioural Therapy — and adapts them rather than applying them generically. A CBT protocol designed for a nuclear family in Manchester needs adjusting before it will work for a twenty-nine-year-old living with her in-laws in Mumbai. That adjustment is most of the skill.

She moved her practice online because it works. Clients who would have missed every third session because of traffic, travel or childcare attend consistently, and consistency is what produces change. It also means she can work with clients in smaller cities and abroad, where finding a therapist who speaks Gujarati or Marathi is close to impossible.

Ami sees individuals, couples, parents seeking guidance about their children, and adolescents. Sessions are unhurried, direct and free of jargon. If something is not working, she will say so and change the approach rather than letting therapy drift.