Asta Brandes

Asta Brandes is an integrative practitioner working in private practice at The Awareness Centre in Clapham. She holds an Advanced Diploma in humanistic integrative counselling and is registered and accredited with the BACP. She works in English and German.

Asta trusts that we all have the capacity to grow, repair, find balance and build resilience. She draws on multiple therapy models aiming to create a safe, non-judgmental and highly personalized way of working. She aims to provide a space that encourages authenticity, openness and personal growth.

Her professional background is in Hospitality and Human Resources. She has a keen interest in the field of positive psychology, a field that enables individuals to thrive through the cultivation of what is best in all of us.

Asta has experience working with a range of difficulties, including low mood and depression, self-esteem, stress, anxiety, traumatic events, loss, anger, obsessive-compulsive behaviours, relationships, sexuality, and issues around lack of meaning and fulfilment.

Asta welcomes adult clients from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, identities, religions, disabilities, sexualities and gender.