Ivana Sharp

Ivana Sharp is an accredited integrative therapist based in the United Kingdom, offering one-to-one sessions in private practice with ten years of experience. Her approach is warm, empathic and responsive, shaped to fit what each person brings to the session whether the concern is a clear diagnosis such as anxiety or depression, or a more diffuse sense that something is not right.

She aims to help people discover solutions suited to their circumstance and to support them toward feeling more alive, centred and empowered. Ivana’s integrative training brings together humanistic and psychodynamic work with elements of CBT and mindfulness, enabling her to tailor interventions to an individual’s needs. She has a particular interest in neurodiversity, the connection between body and mind, and issues related to climate and ecological concern.

Ivana describes her work as collaborative - she and the client are equal partners with different roles. She contributes professional knowledge, experience and clinical intuition without offering ready-made answers, and she encourages clients to draw on their own understanding of themselves. Her relational stance means the therapeutic encounter itself becomes important material for the work, and she seeks to connect with authenticity while maintaining a reflective, observant position.

Transparency is a feature of her practice and she welcomes questions about what is happening in therapy and why. She maintains a clear therapeutic frame with agreed boundaries, providing a containing structure that supports deeper exploration when needed. Her integrative perspective allows therapy to operate on multiple levels - from holding space to be heard, to accessing less familiar parts of the self, to working toward meaning and purpose.

Staying with experience is central to Ivana’s method and underpins the change processes she offers. She keeps an ongoing mindfulness practice and incorporates this into sessions as a way of reconnecting with aliveness and deeper knowing. Ivana works with compassion and respect for each person’s reality and preferences, placing the quality of the therapeutic relationship at the heart of the process.

Qualifications include an Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling achieved in 2015. In addition to her private practice she has worked as a bereavement counsellor for Brent Bereavement Service and as an integrative therapist for the short-term counselling service at a leading mental health charity. Her continuing professional development is mainly experiential and includes workshops, peer support, regular mindfulness practice, personal therapy and supervision. Her background also includes teaching and work with children with special educational needs.