Hi, I'm Smriti - Simi.

I'm a BACP-registered counsellor, MSc student, and mixed-media artist based in Salford, Greater Manchester. My practice brings together therapy, creativity, and lived experience to hold space for people who exist in the in-between.

I was born in Kathmandu and grew up across different places before training as a counsellor in the UK. I know what it feels like to live in the hyphen. That experience, of the third space, the hyphen, the in-between, is what brought me to therapy. And it's what shapes everything I do now.

photo by Iqra Saied

Diaspora therapist UK. Living in the In-Between.

Registration

BACP Registered Member, MBACP 418082

CPD & special interests

Cultural Competence
Wellbeing and Trauma Awareness in the Arts
Unconscious Bias
Creative Health Foundation
Neuroscience and Creative Arts

My therapy training

MSc in Advanced Counselling and Psychotherapy, University of Salford (ongoing) includes Compassion Focused Therapy, Bereavement & Loss, Trauma-Responsive Mindfulness, and Expressive Therapy
Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
Level 3 Counselling Studies
Level 2 Counselling Skills
Level 2 Understanding Autism
BA in Communication, Media and Culture. Oxford Brookes University

My creative practice

I'm a mixed-media artist whose work lives at the intersection of art, health, and wellbeing. I began painting during my counselling training as a form of self-care. It has since grown into a central part of who I am.

Drawing on expressive arts therapy, I use painting and mixed media to explore identity, migrational grief, cultural memory, and the spaces between words.

Alongside my practice, I work with the arts charity Artswork as a Marketing Professional.

The thread that runs through it all

Where creativity, health and wellbeing meet.

Whether I'm working with a client, making a painting, or supporting creative work through Artswork, it's always about the same thing: finding language for what's hard to say. Making room for the parts of us that don't always get space. Making that room, that is the third space.