Jumanah Younis
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About me
Looking for a therapist can be challenging, I hope my profile gives you an insight into my approach and whether we could be well suited to working together.
There are many reasons you might be considering therapy, from relationship issues to chronic feelings of anxiety and depression. You might be struggling to process a traumatic incident/s. Perhaps you are struggling to find meaning in your life or external events in the world are causing you to question your sense of safety or belonging.
Whatever the motivation for you seeking support, I aim to create a holding and non-judgmental place where we can explore what you are experiencing and help you to identify and understand the issue. I believe this is the first step to creating the conditions for change to happen.
As a humanistic therapist, I am led by you in how you would like to use the sessions. I pay close attention to the relationship between us as therapist and client as a way of understanding how you are in relationships with others; over time, this means the therapy can become a place where you experiment with doing things differently.
To get to know each other, we might talk about your issues in the past or present, focusing on the kinds of 'stories' or narratives that emerge about who you are and what you think you can expect from other people and the world around you. Sometimes being able to share in this way can be a relief of stress and anxiety in itself, and at other times it can unlock an awareness that leads you to feel differently to when you started therapy.
Since we experience and are experienced by others through our bodies, I pay attention to my own bodily experience in the session and may share this, or ask about how you are feeling. Sometimes embodied experiences can give us different information to things we have thought about, unlocking new insights or joining up the dots in an unexpected way.
Training, qualifications & experience
Prior to becoming a therapist I worked for five years in domestic and sexual violence services, supporting a diverse range of people. I therefore bring specialist knowledge about the dynamics of power and control in relationships into my practice as a therapist. I was also a volunteer counsellor for two years at MindOut, an LGBTQ+ mental health charity, therefore I have significant experience working with gender, sexual and relationship diversity. As a person of colour therapist I supported many LGBTQ people of colour specifically, who preferred to see a queer, POC counsellor.
I am confident working with issues related to race, culture, spirituality and religion. I use an anti-oppressive framework in my practice; I believe that the world outside of the therapy room affects who and how we are inside of it, and I invite attention to this in our work. In the past I have delivered training on Islamophobia to therapists as part of a collaboration between the Inclusive Mosque initiative and the Radical Therapist Network (RTN), and I am a co-facilitator for RTN's Community Support Circles for people of the global majority.
In my private practice I have worked with clients experiencing a variety of issues including chronic anxiety, loneliness, problems in relationships, persistent low mood, gender identity issues, eating disorders, religious trauma, isolation, racial trauma and others. I was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma with distinction in Counselling and Psychotherapy from The University of Brighton and a Foundation Certificate in Humanistic Counselling Skills from the Metanoia Institute, London. I am also a registered member of the BACP.
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Limited concession spaces available, please email me for details
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On Wednesday and Thursday evenings I see clients in person at the Barnsbury Therapy Rooms in London, N1.
