Bubbling BrookCounselling and Coaching
Flow your way
You don't have to have it all figured out.
A warm, thoughtful space to understand yourself, navigate change, and build a life that feels more like your own.
Online therapy and life coaching with Akanksha S.
No commitment. No pressure. Just a conversation to see if we're a good fit.
This might be for you if…
You look fine on the outside. But something feels harder than it should.
- You're successful by most measures — but exhausted by keeping everything together.
- You've spent years carrying inherited expectations and calling it ambition.
- You've moved cities, countries, careers or identities — and aren't quite sure where you belong anymore.
- You're tired of simply managing symptoms. You want to understand yourself.
- You've thought about therapy before, but time, stigma, cost or simply not knowing where to start got in the way.
You don't need to be in crisis to ask for help.
Sometimes you just know that the way you're living isn't quite working anymore.
What we can work on
Therapy isn't only for one kind of problem. Sometimes it's about what's happening within you. Sometimes it's about what's happening around you. Often, it's both.
Within you
- Stress, depression, anxiety, burnout
- Motivation, trauma and healing
- Values and belief systems
With you
- Life transitions, career switches, moving and adapting to new cultures
- Role changes, job loss
- Aging, existentialism, loss and grief
Around you
- Loneliness, identity, community, belonging
- Family, relationships, communication and boundaries
- Current events, personal politics
What if therapy could feel…
Warm, not clinical.
Welcoming the whole you — identity, culture, relationships, environment.
Curious, not prescriptive.
Naming privilege, power dynamics, and lived experience honestly.
Practical, not just insightful.
Talk plus movement, breathwork, art, and nature — because insight alone rarely creates lasting change.
Human, not hierarchical.
I'm your therapist, guide and fellow traveller — not someone sitting outside your life analysing it.
Who I am
Hi, I'm Akanksha.
I blend training in Therapeutic Counselling (CPCAB) and Transformational Life Coaching (ICF) with a love of yoga, sport, art, and music — creative ways to release big feelings so you can move forward with more clarity.
You can show up just as you are. No judgment, no pressure. This is a confidential, caring space where we build authenticity together.
My story
Years of working across industries and countries taught me something no training programme can: what it costs to keep reinventing yourself, and what it takes to come home to yourself again.
My own experience with depression and self-acceptance gave me first-hand insight into how hard it is to ask for support — and what real change actually takes.
- Motorcyclist
- Scuba diver
- Swimming coach
- Board gamer
- Foodie
- Sketch artist
- Photographer
- Classical singer
- Belly dancer
- Plant mom
- Kombucha brewer
- Aspiring surfer
I've learned that some of the most profound shifts don't happen in conversation — they happen in movement, creativity, and play. That's why my toolkit goes beyond talk.
What clients say
“The most comfortable and effortless therapy experience I've had.”
“...the biggest one has been gaining control over my stress and emotional eating... learning to understand & name my own emotions... has transformed the way I communicate, navigate conflicts, and approach difficult conversations.”
“I wholly recommend getting in touch with Akanksha if you need help to unmuddle your thoughts.”
“Helped me regain a peace and tranquillity that was well on its way out.”
“Therapy has helped bring great relief into my life.”
“...great company while we're at it!”
Who I help
Some of the journeys I often support.
A blend of therapy + coaching
Understand the past. Make sense of the present. Move toward the future.
My training in Therapeutic Counselling Studies and Transformational Life Coaching allows me to draw from both approaches depending on what you need.
Therapy can help you process emotions, experiences and patterns. Coaching can help you turn insight into action.
Together, we create a personalised process that gives you both space to feel and momentum to move.
A different way of looking at change
Like a Bubbling Brook, a resilient spirit is in calm, fluid motion — coursing through changing terrain with balance and acceptance, surfacing the churn within, trusting its flow to something greater.
Life isn't always something we can control. Sometimes we bend. Sometimes we pause. Sometimes we change direction.
Resilience isn't about being unbreakable, fighting the current or pretending everything is fine. It's about staying in motion — bending, pooling to catch your breath, and moving on — even when that motion is slow and gentle.
At Bubbling Brook, we make space for what has been bubbling beneath the surface, understand what it is trying to tell you, and find a way forward that feels natural.
You don't have to know exactly where you're going before you begin.
Ready to start?
You don't have to know exactly what you need before you reach out.
We'll spend 30 minutes talking about what's going on, I'll explain how I work, and we'll decide together whether it feels like a good fit.
No commitment. No pressure.