HI, I’M DHIREN.

I didn’t start out as a therapist. I spent years in IT as a Windows administrator, at places like the Moving Picture Company and Brooks Macdonald. Then I ran our family’s business, a large independent wholesaler. Long hours, no rest, and ADHD I didn’t know I had yet.

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Eventually my mental health hit a wall, and I ended up in therapy myself. That’s where I started undoing things I’d carried for years. The shame of being gay. Being the first in my family born in the UK, pulled between two cultures and everyone’s expectations. The ADHD, which explained so much once I knew. And the habit of hiding all of it.

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What struck me was that I’d never seen anyone like me in that chair. No brown, queer, neurodivergent therapist I could have gone to. I’d probably have been too scared to go anyway, but knowing they existed would have meant everything.

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So I trained as a person centred counsellor, and now I get to be the person I needed back then. If any of this sounds familiar, you won’t have to explain the basics with me.