Shu Beckwith

I currently have availability for new clients.

I offer sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with appointments available between 9:30am and 2:00pm. I work with clients both in person and online.

If you’re interested in working together, do get in touch to arrange an initial consultation. This gives us the chance to see whether working together feels like the right fit.

Hello, I’m Shu. I’m a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist working with adults. I offer online therapy across the UK, alongside in-person sessions in Battersea and Balham, South West London.

I work with people who have spent much of their lives showing up for others. You may be thoughtful, capable and used to carrying responsibility, while feeling overwhelmed, anxious, low in mood, or disconnected from yourself. Many of the people I support come to therapy because they are ready to pause, reflect, and live in a way that feels more aligned and authentic.

My way of working is calm, relational and collaborative. I offer a confidential, emotionally safe and culturally sensitive therapeutic environment where you can speak openly and feel genuinely heard. I work with people experiencing a range of difficulties, including anxiety, depression, burnout, low self-esteem, relationship concerns, and periods of transition or change.

Together, we explore what has shaped you, including past experiences, relationships, and family or cultural influences, and how these continue to affect you today. I support you in developing greater understanding, self-compassion and choice, so that you can move forward with more clarity, balance and confidence.

My therapeutic approach is rooted in person-centred and psychodynamic therapy. This means our work is shaped around you, your pace, and what feels most important to explore within a respectful and collaborative therapeutic relationship.

In sessions, we explore emotional patterns that have taken shape over time, such as people-pleasing, self-criticism, overthinking, or difficulties with boundaries. We look at how past experiences influence the present, while staying grounded in what you are living with now and what feels most important for you to understand or change.

I work with adults experiencing anxiety, low mood or depression, burnout, low self-esteem, relationship and attachment difficulties, as well as grief, loss and major life changes linked to work, identity or life transitions. I have experience working with people from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and life stages, and I hold careful awareness of how culture, identity and social context shape emotional wellbeing.

Before training as a therapist, I spent over 20 years working in the corporate sector, primarily in HR. This experience gives me a strong understanding of workplace pressure, responsibility and burnout, and how sustained stress can affect confidence, identity and mental health over time.

Your first session is an opportunity for us to begin getting to know each other and to explore what has brought you to therapy. We talk about what you’re experiencing, what you’re hoping for, and how therapy with me works.

There is no need to prepare anything in advance, and no pressure to share more than you feel ready to. My role is to help you feel supported, heard and at ease as we begin.

I offer a free 20 minute initial consultation, which gives you the opportunity to ask questions and decide whether working together feels like the right fit. If we continue, sessions usually take place weekly at an agreed time.