Amrit Sagoo

Professional qualifications, accreditations and memberships

• MA
• BA (Hons)
• MBACP Accreditation

Professional experience

Amrit Sagoo is a qualified and accredited Senior Psychotherapist and Specialist Counsellor (MBACP Accred.) with a Master’s degree in Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling. She specialises in trauma, particularly focusing on sexual violence, rape, and PTSD. Amrit works with clients both in the UK and internationally, with a caseload largely focused on trauma-related challenges, including childhood abuse, domestic violence, and assault.

Her clinical experience spans various sectors, including the NHS, where she worked at The Havens, a sexual assault referral centre at King’s College Hospital. She has also worked in the prison service, detention centres, and several mental health and wellbeing organisations. Additionally, Amrit served as a Staff Trauma Counsellor at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, where she supported the staff wellbeing response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the Trust’s staff support service called CONTACT.

Currently, Amrit works as a Senior Counsellor at Help for Heroes, providing support to veterans and their families.

Personal statement

Amrit Sagoo is grounded, therapeutically agile, and deeply compassionate in her approach. She believes in being human first, a therapist second—working alongside clients rather than from a pedestal. Drawing from a wealth of lived experiences, Amrit’s practice is informed not only by her extensive training but also by personal insight. She values the privileged perspective she has gained on the paradoxes of human nature, making weekly journeys to the greatest depths of human trauma: death, infertility, infidelity and depression, as well as the seemingly smaller moments of pain: a crush one might have on another that goes unnoticed, or feelings of jealousy and resentment towards a close friend. As a trauma-informed therapist, Amrit understands that when someone experiences violence, their very sense of being becomes fragmented, severed from the fabric of life and disconnected from humanity.

Her approach to therapy is shaped not only by study and learning but also by her deep self-awareness and confrontation with her own complexities—the painful, embarrassing shadows often buried in shame within our culture. Amrit’s commitment is unwavering. She will stay, listen, and support her clients throughout their healing journey.

Additional information about research, publications, and interests

• Amrit has a particular interest in trauma, PTSD, violence, and war.