Arif Moghal
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This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Are you struggling with anxieties or depression, feeling stuck, has life become confusing or difficult? Are you having relationship or family issues? Did you have difficult experiences in the past? Or maybe things aren’t working out the way you want or the way you hoped?
We all sometimes need another person to hear us, to see us, and to help us make sense of, relieve and change what is happening in our life.
I’m glad you found your way here.
Counselling & Therapy
Each week we'll spend time together in a safe and non-judgemental space. Together, and at your pace, we will unfold and untangle the problems and difficulties in your life. In this process alone there is often a great relief and unburdening.
It will never be about what’s wrong with you. It will be about what happened to you — about how you developed ways of living and being that made it possible for you to cope with the relationships and circumstances in your life, and how those patterns may have become stuck in you, getting in the way of letting you be who you are or who you want to be.
We will explore and understand your relationships with others and with yourself, in the past and in the present, their meaning and their effect on you.
All your feelings, thoughts, curiosities and stories will be welcome.
And there is no obstacle in how young or old you are, what your background or your past is, or what has brought you here in this moment.
Issues I Work With
I work with people with many issues, including but not limited to anxieties; depression; relationships with partners and family; relationships with food; relationships with body image; low self-worth; loss; procrastination; stress; panic attacks; addiction recovery; OCD; early attachment issues; grief and bereavement; self-harm; issues with anger; abuse; loneliness; separation; and insecurity. I also work with clients who have a diagnosis of ADHD.
It may also be though that you are generally dissatisfied and unhappy with your life and want to work out how to free yourself up and live a happier and better life, or find a way to live a completely different life that is more in line with your wishes and hopes.
I work one-to-one with individuals and with groups.
How I Work
I work with a psychodynamic focus, understanding how the unconscious, the unsaid, the past and our early relationships affect how we live now in ways we are not fully aware of. In this approach the goal is to free you "from the bonds of past experience in order to live more fully in the present" (Shedler, 2010).
At the same time my work is also strongly informed by humanistic approaches, where the core values are to meet you where you are, to be non-judgemental and genuine.
I will help you recognise, feel and see the role of the unconscious and the past in your life as you live it now. Often the conversations uncover and understand emotions, feelings and aspects of relationships from the past that are still living and stuck in you, and blocking, troubling, ruling or damaging you, your relationship with your self and your ability to have healthy and enriching relationships with others.
I will be there with you in a confidential, safe relationship as, with time, you experience and understand who and why you are, as you come into the present more fully, consciously and intentionally; as you move towards becoming free of the pains and difficulties of living in anxieties of the future, as you become relieved from the tiredness, weight, depressions and traumas of living unconsciously in events of the past.
Sometimes the conversations will be just about exploring life and your experience of life, but in this too you can find and develop an ease of putting your thoughts and feelings into words, and develop an increased ease of being of who you really are.
And as they may be needed I may call on aspects of modalities such as active imagination, here-and-now existential approaches and trauma-informed work.
Professional Associations
Registered Member of the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists).
Registered Member of the NCPS (National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society)
Associate Member of the IGA (Institute of Group Analysis).
How To Start
The next step is to get in touch if you are interested in experiencing counselling and therapy in your life.
I’m currently taking on new clients online -– a proven and effective way of working -– and at offices in Leicester City.
We can begin with a free initial call to meet each other and start to talk about what’s happening; or contact me by email to arrange the call. From this we can arrange an initial assessment meeting.
If we continue, sessions will be at a mutually agreed and regular time for fifty minutes, once a week. Initial assessments lasting up to one hour are charged at £30. My standard rates for sessions are £60 per weekly session.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MA Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice [Distinction]
- Diploma Psychodynamic Counselling [Distinction]
- Diploma Foundation in Group Analysis
- Registered Member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy)
- Registered Member of the NCPS (National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society)
- Associate Member of the IGA (Institute of Group Analysis)
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
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I can offer the initial assessment at times other than my shown available hours.
