Fiyaz Mughal

I specialise in anxiety, panic disorder, OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), phobias and ruminations. My specialisms also includes stress management, working through ruminations that may be troubling, working with clients to reduce phobias and fears, and supporting greater self-confidence and self-esteem. I also work with trauma and identity and as a neuroscientist graduate, (through my initial degree), I incorporate the biology of the body with the therapy work that I undertake. 

My work with clients who have a range of anxiety issues looks at their past experiences, practical ways of managing anxiety & stress, bodily systems involved and taking a more holistic approach in the management of anxiety with clients. Anxiety does not have to be life limiting and really does not have to manage you. You can manage it through empathy, self-care & understanding.

Over the long term, anxiety, stress, panic and ruminations can deplete bodily energy, create confusion, a sense of low self-esteem and a sense that someone ‘cannot do what others do’. At the heart of it, it is about an internalised risk assessment process that those affected by it, go through, as though their internal script is to manage external risks that in many cases, seems much larger than it actually may be.

As a qualified BACP registered therapist, and as someone who has lived with, managed and reduced the impacts of anxiety on my life for over 30 years, I understand how this condition can affect and permeate many parts of a person’s life. 

If you are looking to make a change, feel more in charge, less critical and even find ways of managing your stress and anxiety, do get in touch with me.

More on my work can be found on 👉  www.counselling4anxiety.com

I also offer specialist counselling services to those suffering trauma from:

• Living their childhood in boarding schools and issues related to this environment,
• Migration and dislocation. This is particularly the case for people who have had to leave their countries of birth and origin,
• Racism, prejudice and intolerance.
• Faith hate that people may have suffered such as anti-Muslim prejudice, anti-Christian or anti-Hindu hatred, to name a few examples.

I require 48 hours notice for cancellations. I try to be as flexible as possible, though a 48 hour notice period is needed, otherwise missed sessions are charged in full.

I am a registered BACP member and realised within my decades-long work with people and communities, that anxiety and mental health conditions can seriously affect the future decisions and life outcomes of those affected. 

Yet, I have also come to realise that counselling support can provide a route through which people can feel rooted, more confident and able to manage anxiety, stress, intrusive thoughts & relationships, thereby moving their lives forward. 

Anxiety can be a condition that feels disabling, overwhelming and all-consuming. It has a knock on effect on self-confidence and self-esteem; but it really does not have to be this way and the body and mind can adapt over time to be able to make meaning of, and overcome feelings of anxiety so that they are manageable and even, peripheral to someone's life. I know, since I have experience of this which I outline below.

I therefore have lived experience of managing long-term anxiety in my life and I have sought pathways that have worked for me, in managing anxiety. One of those pathways was dedicated and committed work in therapy, in understanding the root causes of my anxiety, how it manifested itself in my life, my thoughts and ultimately in my actions. This process of understanding opened up a way in managing & viewing the anxiety, and ultimately in significantly reducing its impact on my life.