Chandana Rathnayake, BACP, NCPS
10 years in practice
Chandana Rathnayake helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self‑esteem and life changes.
License and registration
- BACP
- 382049 · expires January 2027
- NCPS
- NCPS1138 · expires April 2026
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English, Sinhala
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Chandana
Chandana Rathnayake helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self‑esteem and life changes. He supports those dealing with depression, addiction, trauma and issues around intimacy, parenting and career. He also works with people coping with compassion fatigue, ADHD and a wide range of relationship and family concerns.
Chandana practises in the United Kingdom and speaks English and Sinhala. Chandana has worked as a counsellor since 2013, beginning his practice in Malaysia and moving to the UK in 2019.
Background and approach
He holds BACP and NCPS credentials. Alongside counselling he has worked as a mental health adviser in the higher education sector with young adults. Earlier in life Chandana spent twenty years as a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka.
That period gave him experiences and ways of seeing life that he now brings into counselling. He left the monkhood to focus on family life and later combined formal study in psychology and counselling with his earlier training. His approach blends practical conversation with reflective work.
He helps clients use whatever they bring into sessions - even painful or broken parts - as material for rebuilding and change. He often guides people who are searching for meaning, direction or motivation in life, including career and education decisions. Chandana also offers support for grief and major life transitions.
He says he can be helpful when someone is struggling with self‑criticism, low confidence or a strong sense of inner conflict. Sessions aim to be collaborative, down to earth and focused on what the person wants to achieve.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Chandana lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Chandana names
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Online support
How Chandana’s approaches work online
Systemic ideas look at patterns and connections around a person, and how relationships influence feelings and behaviour. In online sessions this can help unpick repeated problems and identify small changes that affect daily life. Client‑centred work focuses on listening, acceptance and the person’s own pace. It supports people who need space to make sense of difficult feelings and decide what matters next.Chandana will work with the client to choose which approaches fit best. He views this as a collaborative process where goals, preferences and practical needs guide the choice. The approach can shift over time as priorities change and new issues appear.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text‑based messaging to suit different routines. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers voice only. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check‑ins, ongoing reflection between sessions or times when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, study and family life.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Chandana support?
He works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and life changes. He also helps with addictions, relationship and family concerns, and difficulties like low self‑esteem, anger and compassion fatigue.
What is his typical counselling style?
Chandana combines conversational, client‑centred work with reflective and systemic ideas. He aims to help people use their own experiences as material for change in a collaborative way.
How much experience does he have?
He has practised as a counsellor since 2013, working first in Malaysia and then in the UK from 2019. He has around ten years of professional experience.
What credentials and location are listed for him?
Chandana holds BACP and NCPS credentials and provides counselling from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Sinhala. He also accepts international clients.
How are sessions delivered online?
He works via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text‑based messaging. These options allow shorter check‑ins or longer conversations depending on needs.
What does therapy cost and how are payments handled?
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