Depression
Discover a therapy experience that's
curious, compassionate, and culturally informed.
Are you experiencing stress, anxiety, or low mood? My name is Franky Dsouza, and I am a Psychotherapist in advanced training. I can provide you with a supportive space for your journey towards healing and transformation.
In therapy, we will explore your thoughts, emotions, and experiences to uncover patterns and insights that lead to deeper understanding and personal transformation. Whether you are dealing with major life transitions, seeking healing from past traumas, or aiming to enhance your relationships and coping skills, I am here to offer personalized support. Through our therapeutic partnership, I aim to provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore, reflect, and ultimately empower yourself to enact positive change. Together, we will navigate the complexities of your inner world, paving the way for healing. I look forward to walking alongside you on this path of self-discovery and growth.
Welcome to Oasis Talking Therapy
Providing the Best Quality Psycological Therapies
Specialties and Expertise
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Anger Management
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Behavioral Issues
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Child
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Cultural guilt
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Life Transitions
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Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
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Peer Relationships
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Relationship challenges
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Spirituality
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Trauma and PTSD
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Intergenerational Trauma
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Addiction
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Anxiety
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Body Positivity
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Codependency
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Family Conflict
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Men's Issues
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Parenting
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Racial Identity
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Self Esteem
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Stress
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Weight Loss
We all begin our stories in the homes we are born into, and our culture plays a significant role in shaping who we are. This awareness allows me to create a safe, non-judgmental space where your unique experiences are honoured, whether you're from a background similar to mine or from a completely different one. Together, we’ll explore your challenges with care and curiosity, helping you grow, heal, and thrive. Reach out today to begin your journey.
Franky DsouzaQualified Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Discover a therapy experience that's curious, compassionate, and culturally informed. As a South Asian therapist, I understand the delicate balance between cultural expectations and personal identity. Growing up in a South Asian household, I experienced the pressures of tradition and family expectations, which shaped my understanding of belonging and individuality. This journey has instilled in me a deep compassion for working with people from all backgrounds, respecting the unique nuances that culture brings into our lives.
Franky DsouzaQualified Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Types of Therapy
Treatment Approach
Attachment-based
Attachment-based therapy is form of therapy that applies to interventions or approaches based on attachment theory, which explains how the relationship a parent has with its child influences development.
Christian Counselling
Christian counseling works by recognizing the close connection between a person's emotional or psychological well-being and their faith. It allows clients to bring their whole selves into therapy in order to develop coping strategies that align with their personal beliefs. Christian counseling draws upon the principles of Christianity to help individuals navigate mental health conditions like depression and anxiety, relationship problems, grief, or anger. It is important to note that not all Christian counselors are licensed therapists. While some integrate evidence-based psychological principles into their practice, others may not.
Compassion Focused
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) may assist individuals who struggle with mood disorders, anxiety, or feelings of shame and self-criticism, often stemming from early experiences of abuse or neglect. Through exercises like role-playing, visualization, meditation, and activities that promote gratitude for everyday life, CFT teaches clients about the mind-body connection and guides them in practicing awareness of their thoughts and bodily sensations. This helps clients cultivate self-compassion and compassion for others, which can help regulate their emotions and foster a sense of safety, self-acceptance, and comfort.
Culturally Sensitive
Culturally sensitive therapists provide therapy that is culturally sensitive. They understand that people from different backgrounds have different values, practices, and beliefs, and are sensitive to those differences when working with individuals and families in therapy.
Integrative
Integrative therapy refers to therapy in which elements from different types of therapy may be used. Therapists 'integrate' two or more therapeutic styles (e.g. Cognitive and Family Systems) to bring about a personalised and practical approach to healing. Integrative therapy (with a small 'i') may also refer to the process of 'integrating' the personality by taking disowned or unresolved aspects of the self and making them part of a cohesive personality whole. It reduces the use of defense mechanisms that inhibit spontaneity and allows flexibility in solving emotional problems.
Interpersonal
IPT is a short-term psychotherapy in which therapist and client identify the issues and problems of interpersonal relationships. They also explore the client's life history to help recognise problem areas and then work toward ways to rectify them. There are specific Interpersonal therapies, such as Imago therapy, which focus on intimate relationships. Interpersonal therapy is not to be confused with transpersonal psychology, which is the study of states in which people experience a deeper sense of who they are, or a sense of greater connectedness with others, nature or spirituality.
Intervention
An intervention is a planned attempt by the family and friends of the subject to, in effect, get them to seek help for an addiction (i.e. drugs, medications, gambling) or other serious problem. Interventionists (as they are sometimes called) or intervention specialists often work with treatment facilities in order to provide the patient after-care that will be necessary.
Multicultural
Multicultural awareness is an understanding and sensitivity of the values, experiences, and lifestyles of minority groups. Differences in race, culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, are all tackled by Multicultural counselling. In the counselling setting, the counsellor recognizes that the client is different from the counsellor and treats the client without forcing the client to be like him or her.
Person-Centred
Person-centred therapy uses a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in discussions so that, in the process, they will discover their own solutions. The therapist acts as a compassionate facilitator, listening without judgment and acknowledging the client's experience without moving the conversation in another direction. The therapist is there to encourage and support the client and to guide the therapeutic process without interrupting or interfering with the client's process of self-discovery.
Psychoanalytic
Psychoanalysis is an in-depth form of therapy. The client learns what conscious and unconscious wishes drive their patterns of thinking and behaviour on the theory that, by making the unconscious conscious, they will make more educated choices over how they think and act. Traditional psychoanalysts may treat clients intensively but reveal little of their own views or feelings during therapy. Modern psychoanalysts may treat less frequently and take a more interactive approach.
Relational
Relational life therapy offers strategies to combat marital dysfunction and restore harmony in relationships. Couples--those recovering from affairs, traumatic events, or a lull in passion--can find RLT helpful. To repair discord, the therapist identifies the main conflict upsetting the couples' emotional intimacy. Once the partners see how they both contribute to the problem, the therapist teaches them skills to improve the ways they relate to each other. Couples may see a change in their relationship within three to six months.
Somatic
Somatic (from the Greek word 'somat', meaning body) psychotherapy bridges the mind-body dichotomy recognising that emotion, behaviour, sensation, impulse, energy, action, gesture, meaning and language all originate in physical experiences. Thinking is not an abstract function but motivates, or is motivated by, physical expression and action. A somatic approach to trauma treatment can be effective by examining how past traumatic experiences cause physical symptoms (e.g. bodily anesthesia or motor inhibitions) which in turn affect emotion regulation, cognition and daily functioning. Dance therapy reflects a somatic approach.
Trauma Focused
Trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy (TF-CBT) helps people who may be experiencing post-traumatic stress after a traumatic event to return to a healthy state.
Couples Therapy
Are you feeling stuck in unhelpful patterns in your relationship? Good relationships are vital for our well-being, but they can sometimes be difficult to navigate. It's normal to experience ups and downs, but when challenges become overwhelming, communication can break down. That’s where couples therapy can help. As a qualified and passionate therapist, I offer a safe, impartial space to help you and your partner understand each other better, improve communication, and break the cycle of hurt. My approach focuses not on blame, but on fostering understanding and creating healthier ways of relating. I am trained in a developmental model of relationships, which enables me to guide you through the different stages of your partnership and help you uncover any hidden dynamics that may be causing difficulties. Together, we can explore the subconscious behaviour’s influencing your relationship and work toward permanent positive change.
Counselling
Very simply it could be said that counselling is a short-term therapy, or what is brought into the therapy room is material that does not require deep long-term exploration but more straight forward approaches to resolving ongoing issues, which could be worked with relatively well by the client independently from the therapist.
Very simply it could be said that counselling is a short-term therapy, or what is brought into the therapy room is material that does not require deep long-term exploration but more straight forward approaches to resolving ongoing issues, which could be worked with relatively well by the client independently from the therapist.
Psychotherapy
This mode of therapy is generally considered as long term, which can be anywhere from one month to several years. With this way of working the client and therapist begin to form an enriching therapeutic working relationship, and work toward trust, congruence and a sense of oneness in order to find the causes of tension within the psyche.
This mode of therapy is generally considered as long term, which can be anywhere from one month to several years. With this way of working the client and therapist begin to form an enriching therapeutic working relationship, and work toward trust, congruence and a sense of oneness in order to find the causes of tension within the psyche.
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What results can you expect from my support?
Many people may feel hopeless and believe that seeking help won't make a difference. However, it's important to remember that reaching out for help is a significant step towards healing and leading a more satisfying life. Asking for help takes courage, and it's the first victory towards changing oneself and one's situation. If you ever feel like you need help, don't hesitate to ask for it. Seeking support can help you discover new aspects of yourself that you were previously unaware of, make changes to become a better version of yourself, and create the life you want.
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