My name is Anna da Costa.

I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist, with an MA in Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapeutic Practice from the Karuna Institute, UK.

While I grew up in the UK, I have spent close to two decades living in India. For many years, I have worked on ecological and social issues at a macro-level as an ecologist, sustainability practitioner and writer. The more deeply I engaged with these issues, the more I became drawn to exploring healing processes and practices at the individual level. Training and practicing as a psychotherapist has been a natural evolution and expansion of this journey.

I have a long-standing mindfulness practice, which offers a vital ground for my work.

My cultural origins are mixed; I have an English mother and a Goan father. The experiences of both diversity and “in between-ness” that are associated with this inform my practice in many ways.

I am deeply committed to my work as a psychotherapist, and find the process profoundly moving, humbling and inspiring. It is an honour to work with each of my clients, and to accompany them on their journeys of healing and becoming.   

I work with clients from many parts of the world, and live in Goa, India, with my husband and daughter.

My Qualifications

My formal educational qualifications are listed below:

• MA Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapeutic Practice, Karuna Institute, UK (in association with Middlesex University) (2021).

• MSc Environmental Technology, Imperial College London (2013)

• BA Hons (Cantab.) Natural Science (Biological), Cambridge University, UK (2006)

Whilst I have immense gratitude for the rigour and grounding of the training I have received, much of what I bring to my work as a psychotherapist also falls outside the bounds of formal education.

I have spent many periods of my life leaving behind well-trodden paths in search of something deeper and more meaningful. This wider journeying has led to explorations of spiritual and mystical teachings, of mythology and cosmology, of archetypes, and of indigenous, ecological wisdom. All of these elements weave their way into my practice as a psychotherapist.

I am committed to the ongoing deepening of my understanding and practice of psychotherapy, in its broadest sense, and to this end engage with a wide variety of continuing development opportunities, both formal and otherwise.