Sasha Dineen, BACP

Sasha Dineen is a BACP counsellor based in Littlehampton, West Sussex, with five years of practice in private work and employee assistance programmes. She trained with a BA (Hons) in Humanistic Counselling and also holds a PGCE in teaching. Sasha helps people with stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, self-esteem and life changes, and she lists blended family issues among her focus areas.

She combines humanistic, person-centred ideas with short-term, solution-focused work used in EAP settings. That means sessions can include talking things through, mapping small steps, and trying practical changes between meetings. Sasha also uses creative arts approaches when helpful, offering different ways to communicate feelings beyond words.

Her background includes running counselling and wellbeing courses, and teaching aspects of mental health and mindfulness. That experience informs a straightforward style in sessions and an emphasis on clear techniques people can use day to day. She has worked with adults and young people both in person and online.

People come to Sasha for a wide range of concerns, from parenting and co-parenting stress to trauma, addiction, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD and chronic illness issues. She also supports LGBT concerns, attachment and adoption-related matters, and communication problems that often come with blended households.

Outside of counselling she plays badminton, enjoys cold-water sea swimming, and likes board games and jigsaw puzzles. These personal interests sometimes shape less formal, creative ways of approaching difficult topics in sessions.