Whole-person care
We look beyond isolated symptoms and consider the biological, psychological, relational, cultural, and social context surrounding them.
About Parallax Psychology
There is never only one perspective.
Parallax Psychology was created around a simple belief: meaningful therapy begins by understanding the whole person—not reducing someone to symptoms, labels, or a single explanation.
Our ethos
Understanding before assumption
Every experience is shaped by an interaction between the body, emotions, thoughts, relationships, culture, identity, environment, and life history. We make room for that complexity and explore it with curiosity.
Our role is not to decide who you should become. It is to help you understand your experiences more deeply, recognise patterns, and develop changes that feel useful and sustainable in your life.
Therapy at Parallax Psychology is collaborative, evidence-informed, and adaptable. Your insight, preferences, communication style, and pace remain central throughout.
What guides the service
Collaboration
Therapy is something we develop together. Formulations remain open to revision as new understanding and perspectives emerge.
Individuality
No single model suits everyone. Psychological ideas and practical strategies are selected according to your needs rather than imposed as a fixed programme.
Affirmation
Neurodivergence, gender, sexuality, and culture are approached with respect. Difference is not automatically treated as deficit or pathology.
Safety and transparency
Expectations, confidentiality, boundaries, fees, and the limits of the service are discussed clearly before therapy begins.
Meaningful movement
Progress does not need to be linear. Small shifts in perspective can create space for practical and lasting change.
Inclusive by design
A space where you do not have to leave parts of yourself outside.
Parallax Psychology aims to offer neurodiversity-affirming, LGBTQIA+ affirming, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive care. Therapy is adapted to how you communicate, process information, and experience the world—not the other way around.
Affirming practice does not ignore distress, disability, or support needs. It seeks to understand them without assuming that difference itself is defective.
Meet the practitioner
Pratha Sachdeva
Pratha is a psychology practitioner with postgraduate training in clinical psychology. Her approach is collaborative, person-centred, and informed by the biopsychosocial model.
She draws flexibly from person-centred, cognitive-behavioural, compassion-focused, acceptance-based, and relational ideas. Her experience includes clinical neuropsychology, psychological and neuropsychological assessment in assistant roles, structured interviewing, formulation, interventions under supervision, research, and individualised support for neurodivergent children and adults.
Lived experience and neurodiversity
Alongside her professional training, Pratha brings lived experience as an autistic and ADHD practitioner. This strengthens her commitment to respecting different communication styles, sensory needs, attention patterns, and ways of processing information—without assuming another person’s experience resembles her own.
Qualifications
MSc Foundations in Clinical Psychology
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
MA Psychology and BA Psychology Honours
Panjab University, India
Begin with curiosity
Explore whether working together feels right.
A free 15-minute consultation gives you space to ask questions and discuss what brings you to therapy.