Menaka Thiru
Qualifications & Training
Menaka holds an AQA Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and is an Accredited Registrant member of The National Counselling Society. Moreover, she is an experienced counsellor of nine years' standing and has been working with a range of issues in varied contexts and with a diversity of clients. She is currently engaged in further professional training.
Menaka’s experience includes counselling children and young people aged 11-18 on a voluntary basis for up to a few hours a week from 2012 to 2016 at a Cambridgeshire secondary school, four years counselling adults part-time for a Cambridgeshire therapy provider, and one year as a weekly volunteer counsellor for adults with the mental health charity Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire Mind.
She has also worked in private practice since December 2017, both in-person and online. She has recently also provided counselling for university students in the UK via an online platform. Moreover, she has more recently brought her working experience around mental health to the role of an online specialist mental health mentor to students in higher education.
Approach
Menaka will work with you so you can find relief from emotional distress, build self-awareness and access inner resources. She views counselling as a rich opportunity for you to make positive changes and enjoy more personal choice and freedom. She feels it promotes fresh insights about yourself and the people and circumstances in your life and can open the door to nourishing new experiences. Over the years she has practised as a counsellor she has established supportive and collaborative therapeutic relationships with a diverse range of individuals, each with their own story and each dealing with their unique personal circumstances and challenges. She aims to create a safe, non-judgemental space where you can feel that you and your concerns really matter. You address whatever is on your mind or in your heart at your own pace.
Menaka works integratively, drawing on both humanistic and psychodynamic principles and is happy to discuss her approach to counselling more with you. She offers both short-term and open-ended counselling.
Making the first step towards counselling can feel daunting. Rest assured Menaka will provide you with a warm welcome.