MY APPROACH

Counselling and psychotherapy are not one-size-fits-all approaches. As an integrative therapist, I offer a flexible therapy service by appropriately combining various "modalities" or types of care to tailor counselling to your needs, individually.

I use psychodynamic and attachment theories to explore how past experiences influence the present, and consider the systems surrounding you that may reflect on your way of being.

I am trauma-informed having acquired substantial experience working with survivors of domestic violence.

I prioritise a trusting therapist-client relationship, utilising a person-centered approach that embodies empathy and non-judgement, allowing you to feel seen and heard.

With children and young people, I apply creative play and neuroscience theory to tailor therapy to development. I employ CBT to support exploration around thinking.

I see myself as a therapist of colour and therefore ensure all my work employs cultural sensitivity, and faith-awareness.

EXPERIENCE

Private Practice

In my private practice, I provide tailored high-quality counselling to clients of various ages and diverse backgrounds (children, adolescents, sixth form students and adults), experiencing a wide range of emotional problems, whilst observing confidentiality.

Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) Tutor at Place2Be

I teach, deliver lectures, and facilitate learning forums to support trainee child counsellors in clinical counselling psychology, child development and psychotherapy underwritten by the University of East London.

School Clinician:

Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form

I have substantial clinical counselling experience working with children and adolescents. Currently, I manage and oversee clinical counselling provision at a state secondary school in Waltham Forest supporting pupils with emotional challenges, on occasions in partnership with NHS professionals, Social Services and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Weekly sessions explore issues ranging from anxiety, self-harm, exam pressures, peer issues and parent-child dynamics. In primary school, I work with children across Key Stage 1 and 2 employing creative and play therapeutic practices.

Sixth Form: I work with young people transitioning from secondary school to sixth form, and with sixth form students transitioning to University. We work on various issues ranging from anxiety, stress and peer relationships.

Non-profit Women's Support Service: Nour Domestic Violence (NDV)

I have clinical trauma-informed experience working with South Asian women aged 20 and above supporting them with trauma, abuse, family and domestic violence-related issues.