About Ms. Shreshtha Malhotra
Child & Adolescent Mental Health | Parent & Family Work | Neurodivergence-Affirming | Counselling Psychologist
Ms. Shreshtha Malhotra is a Counselling Psychologist with over four years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, parents, and families. Her work is grounded in the understanding that emotional distress is not always visible or easily expressed—particularly for children and young people—and that meaningful therapy begins with creating a space where individuals feel safe enough to be understood without judgment.
Shreshtha works extensively with children and adolescents experiencing emotional regulation difficulties, behavioural concerns, anxiety, school-related distress, school refusal, developmental concerns, identity-related challenges, grief, interpersonal difficulties, and periods of significant emotional overwhelm. She also supports adults navigating anxiety, stress, relationships, grief, identity exploration, life transitions, and difficulties in understanding recurring emotional or interpersonal patterns.
A significant part of her practice involves working with neurodivergent children, adolescents, and adults, including individuals with ADHD and Autism. Her work is neurodiversity-affirming and focuses on understanding each individual’s unique ways of communicating, processing emotions, responding to sensory and social environments, and navigating everyday demands. Rather than approaching neurodivergence solely through a deficit-based lens, she works collaboratively to support emotional wellbeing, self-understanding, regulation, autonomy, and sustainable functioning.
Shreshtha also works closely with parents and caregivers navigating behavioural challenges, developmental concerns, emotional dysregulation, parent-child conflict, school difficulties, and uncertainty around how best to support their child. She helps families move beyond simply managing behaviour to understanding what the behaviour may be communicating about a child’s emotional, relational, developmental, or environmental needs.
Her therapeutic style is collaborative, compassionate, and responsive to the individual. She recognizes that some clients come to therapy seeking practical tools and strategies, while others need space to process emotions, understand patterns, and make sense of their experiences. Her work is therefore flexible and tailored to each client’s age, developmental needs, strengths, goals, and context.
Drawing from Narrative Therapy, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Play Therapy, trauma-sensitive practice, neurodiversity-affirming care, queer-affirmative therapy, and selected CBT-based strategies, Shreshtha creates therapeutic spaces that are both emotionally supportive and practically meaningful. Clients and families often experience her as warm, patient, curious, and collaborative—someone who takes time to understand the person behind the concern rather than reducing them to a symptom, behaviour, or diagnosis.