Malvika Lobo

Not everything you are carrying has words yet. Malvika does not make you find them before you start. She trained in arts-based and animal-assisted therapy alongside clinical psychology, which is a longer way of saying she has more than one door into a feeling. Sometimes the way in is talking. Sometimes it is a drawing, an object, something you make with your hands while the real sentence slips out sideways.

She has sat with a wide range of people. Children, teenagers, adults, and people in their eighties and nineties. Anxiety and low mood, and also special needs and developmental disabilities, where someone has often been told for years that certain rooms were not built for them. She has worked in schools, in organisations, and with an animal-assisted foundation, so she is comfortable well beyond talk alone.

She is a real person in the room, not a blank wall. She will make a joke when a joke is what the moment needs, and she has little patience for the kind of therapy that performs seriousness at you. Where she holds firm is the work itself. Person-centred, with CBT and REBT underneath and creative methods on top, paced to you and not to a manual.

She also builds and runs the employee assisted program, so a good part of her attention is on reaching people before things get heavy, not only after.