Sahar Mirshafiei, BACP Registered, Accredited Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling

About me

Client Feedback in photo section below :)  Something I reiterate to clients time and again is that this isn't all me ~ this is us, together, in a collaboration, an open process, in which I learn and grow and thrive just as much. It's reciprocal and vibrant and for that I'm eternally thankful:

A person-centred counsellor delivering a warm and supportive integrative approach including transactional therapy, CBT formulations, and psychodynamic therapy.  I find that anxiety and depression are especially prevalent given the pace and structure of modern life, therefore they're commonly worked with in tandem to other presenting issues.

Tension often brings us to counselling, whether it be a result of sudden or unforeseen circumstances, from historical upheavals and traumas, or a combination of both.  Everyone deserves a safe space to explore their thoughts and feelings in confidentiality. When this environment is created, we're able to build a landscape, diffuse and dis-empower panic, to reflect and make sense of what we have experienced, what is important to us, and where we'd like to go to next.

We're all involved in a myriad of relationships.  At times, some of these may begin to feel imbalanced, unhappy, counterproductive, or unsustainable.  Whether that be with ourselves, partners, children, family members, friends, colleagues, neighbours, or acquaintances.  We also have relationships with our environments, our homes, places of work, cities, with food, hobbies, jobs, money, our bodies, cultures, and technology, to name but a few.

Beginning to understand the intricacies of our relationships and roles in one area casts much light on other parts of our experience.  Oftentimes, greater clarity and understanding leads to an uplift in our quality of life due to increased confidence, autonomy, fulfillment, and enjoyment.