About me
Hi there, I’m Zaid. I’m a person-centred and experiential psychotherapist. My work brings together the person-centred approach and emotion-focused practice. Many of the people I work with have spent most of their lives adapting & shifting themselves to fit family, culture, work, or whatever space they’re in. It creates a particular kind of tiredness that comes from always trying to make sense of where you belong. If you’re neurodivergent, from a mixed or migrant background, or just carrying more than people realise, you might know that feeling well. I know something of that in-between space myself. It’s part of what brought me into therapy work, and it shapes how I sit with people.
I work relationally and person-centred, which means: • I don’t push an agenda or tell you who you should become • I follow your pace, not the fastest or the one you think you “should” be at • I’m attentive to culture, identity, power, and the ways we learn to survive • I hold space for complexity, contradiction, and all the parts you’ve had to hide.
People often come to me because they’re exhausted from holding everything together. They want somewhere to rest and where they don’t have to perform, and to explore who they are beneath all the adapting. If something in this speaks to you, I’d be glad to meet and see whether this feels like a place you can land for a while.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MSc Counselling & Psychotherapy - The University of Strathclyde
- Emotion-Focused Therapy, Level 1 - The Scottish Institute for Emotion-Focused Therapy
- COSCA Counselling Skills Certificate
Alongside my MSc and COSCA training, I’ve worked with autistic adults at Number 6, supported individuals around relationships at Bright Light, and offered therapy in LGBT+ communities at LGBT Health and Wellbeing.
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
Identity, cultural belonging, neurodivergence, burnout, emotional overwhelm, high-stress roles/environments
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Fee: £55/session (standard rate) in-person - £55/session online.
- Please note; my low-cost session options are currently at full capacity.
When I work
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