Salma Mousavi Makki

Training, qualifications & experience

BA (Hons) degree in Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Child counsellor: The Place2Be, counselling primary school children.

General Counselling, Petersfield Counselling service.

NHS Counsellor: Surrey County Hospital. Offering support to cancer patients and their relatives, Fountain Centre, St Lukes Hospital.

Student Counsellor: Surrey University.

Other areas of counselling I deal with

I work with patients affected by cancer and their relatives. I have experience working with fear, anger and anxiety related to cancer.

I also offer Islamic counselling to Muslim clients who are looking for an Islamic counselling approach.

Further information

What is Counselling?

Counselling allows you to discuss your problems and any difficult feelings you encounter in a safe, confidential, and non-judgmental environment. Counselling is a process you seek when you want to change something in your life or when you simply want to explore your thoughts and feelings in more depth. There are various approaches within counselling. My main approach is the person-centred approach, which means you are empowered to discover solutions to issues within a supportive setting.

As a counsellor, I will encourage you to talk about what’s bothering you in order to uncover any root causes and identify your specific ways of thinking.  I will help you find your ways of coping, whilst uncovering your own insight and understanding of your issues.

Counselling often requires you to discuss upsetting emotions and painful memories. Bringing up these thoughts can feel difficult to start with and, initially, you may feel worse. This process is necessary to move forward and, in time, you would start to feel better.

Sandtray therapy:

Sandtray therapy gives expression to non-verbalised emotional issues. It provides a needed communication vehicle for clients with poor verbal skills and cuts down on verbal defensiveness. It is also useful with clients who are introverted, have trouble verbalizing or are tense. It is also useful for clients who over-verbalize or intellectualize.