About me
Hello. I work online with individuals and couples, starting at £85 weekly for individuals and £130 for couples. Contact me for a free conversation where we think about what you’re struggling with and how I can help. You’re also welcome to visit my website (linked) to learn more about my approach.
When you’re wading through profiles it’s difficult to know how therapists differ from one another so I’ll do my best to be as clear as I can.
You’re probably good at a lot of things and have been managing for a long time on your own. But maybe you’re reached a point where it’s all started to feel a bit hollow - something has shifted and you’re feeling stuck or unsure about where you’re going, or struggling to process a big change or transition in life (or even the anticipation of one). This is the point where most people contact me.
If this is you, you might be feeling low, empty or lost, struggling with feeling connected to others, or just finding yourself stuck in strange situations or patterns you don’t fully understand but can’t seem to step away from.
Maybe you’ve spent a lot of time trying to make sense of things on your own, but still feel that something isn’t changing - or feel like you’re struggling to process things on your own. I’d say this is the point where people find therapy with me useful.
If you’re in a relationship, you might be having the same arguments constantly and just starting to feel increasingly distant from each other. Maybe you’re questioning what’s the point in this anymore? If you’re struggling to talk about difficult things without becoming defensive or withdrawing you might still care about each other, but feel unsure how to reconnect or come back from events of the past. I find that this is the point where therapy with me becomes helpful.
Whether you’re seeking therapy for yourself or as a part of a couple; I hope you’ll find me warm and friendly but focused on helping you find the tools to change things for yourself. Sometimes that means exploring and processing even when all you want is for me to give you the answers and make things feel less awful. Sometimes that means practical tools to communicate better or regulate difficult emotions. Sometimes it means both. Either way, therapy with me offers a space to slow things down, meet you where you are at and understand what is happening beneath these patterns.
My approach is relational, humanistic and existential, and about using curiosity to give you the space and tools to move forwards toward the life you want to create.
Training, qualifications & experience
My training has followed the scientist-practitioner model, meaning that I am trained to work therapeutically while thinking about and referring to the research literature and evidence base around how your struggles affect you. What this means for you is that I'm drawing on more than just my own intuition and experience when we are working together and am usually also drawing on the current wider research literature.
Teaching, training and research
I have taught and led seminars around clinical practice at undergraduate and postgraduate level in psychology and psychotherapy. I am also currently a clinical stakeholder in a pioneering project creating a benchmark to assess the therapeutic safety of AI, as well as working on a large scale research project investigating the impact of shunning in religious communities.
Qualifications
- BSc Psychology, Brunel University. This was my foundation in human psychology covering biological, cognitive, developmental and social psychology as well as personality psychology.
- MSc Clinical Associate in Psychology, University College London (UCL). This was a clinical psychology training to work with complex adult mental health difficulties in NHS community services, covering CBT and third wave behavioural models. Accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
- MSc Counselling Psychology, University of Roehampton. This was an in depth therapeutic and research training covering humanistic therapies including person-centred, existential and Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT).
- PsychD Doctorate in Counselling Psychology (pending 2027), University of Roehampton. This is an advanced, doctoral level therapeutic and research training covering humanistic, psychodynamic and CBT and third wave behavioural therapeutic models in order to practice as Counselling Psychologist, a title which is legally protected in the UK, accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Other relevant certifications
- CPD in Relationship Therapy - Headstrong Academy. Anti-oppressive and culturally informed relationship therapy training.
- Certificate in Therapeutic Skills, Metanoia Institute. Foundational therapeutic training in counselling skills.
- Intensive Training Certificate in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, British Isles DBT. I am qualified to carry out 1:1 and group DBT within a DBT service with clients who are suicidal and self-harming.
- Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE-III). Training to assess for cognitive impairment in adults and older adults.
- BACP Certificate of Proficiency. This confirmed that I meet the standards necessary to register with the BACP.
Clinical experience
I have six years of clinical experience across the NHS in Talking Therapies (IAPT), community mental health teams, and specialist mental health rehabilitation services, working with adults and older adults across a wide range of presentations including complex trauma, severe mood and anxiety difficulties, psychosis, and complex relational and emotional needs including personality disorders, suicidality and self-harm. I also have experience in private therapy settings and with young people in a school setting.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
As a British South Asian therapist, I pay particular attention to the ways wider cultural, religious and systemic factors may play into your current situation as well as how the relationship between us unfolds, and this is something we can explore as much or as little as you want to.
I also work with people leaving religious communities and those affected by religious shunning.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£85.00 - £130.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Free initial conversation to see whether we might be able to work together.
Individual therapy - £85 for 50 minute weekly sessions.
Relationship therapy - starting at £130, please get in touch for more details.
Unfortunately I currently have no in-person availability or concessionary spots available.
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