J Sanjay Kumar

I work Monday and Wednesday evenings online

Fridays I offer in person sessions during the day in Hackney Downs and also online, Friday evening sessions are only online. 

I work some weekends on request. 

Late evening and weekend sessions are more expensive. 

I work primarily online with a few limited spaces for in person in Hackney Downs on Fridays during the day. I have worked internationally and with a diverse range of ethnicities. My modality is integrative, marrying Western psychotherapy with Eastern practices of Mindfulness and Meditation. My training is Psychodynamic and Existential, leaning more towards a spiritual and humanistic approach which is Jungian. I use Gestalt Practice. For 20 years I've worked mostly within the Queer, South Asian and HIV positive identities. I believe you are the expert on you and my role is to facilitate our journey together of the discovery, understanding, acceptance and healing of the you, you have been and the you you would like to become. 

My Pracitice is primarily Talking Therapy. However, I may often use some CBT techniques and forms when they are necessary. I use Gestalt exercises and Transactional Analysis. I use mindfulness practices and meditations such as Metha Bhavna, Compassion and Gratitude Meditation, Annapanna silent breath meditation, Walking Meditation and Chakra Meditations. 

I call this our "Initial Consultation" which is slightly more expensive as it lasts for a full 60 minute hour than just the stipulated standard 50 minute therapy hour. 

We will explore your background demographic identities and the realities that bring you to therapy at the present time.

We will explore what your goals and expectations might be from me, from therapy and for yourself. 

We will lay out the framework within which we will be working and arrive at a mutually agreeable plan for the first 12 weeks. We will do a review and make a further plan for the weeks ahead in the 11th session. I use the PHQ and GAD forms as an indicator of mental health and well-being to record the progress of the journey. 

I'm currently only working online.

I identify as Queer and my training is in Integrative Psychotherapy from The School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regents University, London. Integrating mainly Western Jungian and Existential Phenomenology with Eastern healing practices of Mindfulness and Guided Meditation working in close association with body therapists offering a bespoke experience suited to each client. I offer individual psychotherapy to adults only. I also run workshops on Intimacy, Self awareness, Gender and ChemSex management. 

I also was have a seminary training which brings a pastoral, spiritual element to my work if the client requests it. I use Gestalt Therapy tools in my work, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy techniques, Transactional Analysis and many other tools I've picked up over the two decades of my professional experience.

I work with intersectionality as I am too an Indian in the UK, out as a gay man from a conservative evangelical Christian upbringing who has been living with HIV since 2004. This enables me to bring much empathy and experience to my intuition in the therapy room. 

I really do believe and know from experience not just in my private practice but also from my own therapy that insight, catharsis, growth, healing and personal development happens not only in the space created between a willing therapist and a willing client but also in how the space is used in-between sessions. These happen in the safety within which words are spoken and heard, emotions expressed and held but also in the silence shared. 

Jungian

Existential Phenomenology

Transactional Analysis

Gestalt Practice

Interpersonal

Mindfulness practice

Guided Meditations

Individual 

Time-limited, Solution focused

Open ended and Explorative

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

Integrative Model of working using all the above and more to facilitate a bespoke journey for my clients.

I've worked in the Corporate sector as well as with NGO's and Sexuality, Gender and Relationship Minority Charities and been in private practice since 2009. 

I work internationally running workshops for Gay/Bi/MSM in the UK, EU, USA and India.

Currently working only online.

First session will include:

Establishing presenting realities

Exploring expectations of self, therapist and therapy

Exploring Risk

Emergency Contact information.

Setting therapy boundaries of confidentiality, time, venue, frequency and fees

Payment and cancellation policy