Rines Shanthakumar, BACP
3 years in practice
Rines Shanthakumar is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and relationship difficulties.
License and registration
- BACP
- 408596 · expires October 2026
- Years in practice
- 3
- Languages
- English, Tamil
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Rines
Rines Shanthakumar is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and relationship difficulties. He also supports people coping with major life changes and the emptiness that can follow loss or transition. Rines uses an integrative approach that draws on Existential therapy, Attachment-based ideas, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Client-centred work.
He aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what matters to each person.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to individual needs. Rines listens for patterns in relationships and feelings, and helps people notice how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going. He offers simple tools to manage anxiety and low mood, alongside space to talk about identity, meaning and difficult life events.
He trained to a BSc (Hons) in Counselling and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP. That membership is shown here as a professional credential and is used as given in his profile. Rines works in English and Tamil.
He welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and aims to make therapy accessible and respectful. If someone prefers a steady, listening style that also includes practical techniques, he can combine those approaches to fit the person's goals.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Rines lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Approaches Rines names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
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Online support
Approaches and online therapy options
Rines draws from Existential therapy, Attachment-based ideas and Client-centred therapy to shape online work. Existential therapy focuses on questions of meaning, choice and responsibility and can help when life feels empty or directionless. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people change repeating patterns. Client-centred therapy places the person’s experience at the centre and uses empathic listening to build a trusting working relationship.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Rines will work collaboratively to identify what fits best for the person’s needs, goals and preferences and may blend techniques as progress evolves.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, travel or other commitments and help people access counselling from different locations.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of issues does Rines focus on?
He supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem and coping with life changes.
How would you describe his therapeutic style?
He combines listening and reflection with practical techniques, using a calm, person-centred approach that also looks at meaning and relationship patterns.
What experience does he bring to sessions?
He has three years of clinical experience working with a broad range of mental health concerns and relationship issues.
What credentials and location are listed?
He holds a BSc (Hons) in Counselling and is a BACP member. He is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported for therapy?
Sessions are offered in English and Tamil.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging.
How do costs work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
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