I offer a range of different types of services

  • Counselling & Psychotherapy

  • Consultancy Training

  • Clinical Supervision

  • Bespoke Diversity Workshops

"It is the therapy that needs to fit the client and not the client fit the therapy"

- Jafar Kareem

Core treatment approaches

I work primarily as a Psychodynamic therapist although draw on other relational models.

Psychodynamic

Psychodynamic therapy supports individuals gain insight into their lives and present-day concerns. The aim is to encourage a person to speak freely about their emotions, desires, and fears. Being open may help reveal vulnerable feelings that have been pushed out of conscious awareness. With this model, we will generally explore your present difficulties with reference to your past experiences and childhood, untangling areas of inner conflict.

Humanistic/Person-Centred

Humanistic/Person-Centred therapy aims to help an individual develop a stronger, healthier sense of self. This involves exploration of and understanding their feelings to help gain a sense of meaning in life.  I work collaboratively, adopting a non-judgemental attitude so individuals are encouraged to learn to understand how negative responses to life events can lead to psychological difficulties, furthermore, individuals are supported to explore their own thoughts and feelings and to work out their own solutions to their difficulties, in doing so reach their full potential both emotionally and spiritually.

Intercultural

Intercultural therapy advocates that whilst human beings have much in common with each other, it is my belief that different groups face different challenges, and these need to be understood and addressed in counselling. This is a form of dynamic psychotherapy which recognises the importance of race: culture and ethnicity and acknowledges that there are intrinsic differences between individual human-beings. As a therapist drawn to this approach, I see the significance of an individuals’ external realities and how these can affect their internal worlds.
As an intercultural therapist, I have been committed and passionate in addressing the ‘complex cultural’ needs particularly of individuals from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) backgrounds. The gaps in mainstream mental healthcare of specialist services for this client group remain ever significant to me.  

Presenting issues I work with: 

  • Abortion

  • Arranged/Forced Marriage

  • Anger Issues

  • Anxiety & Stress

  • Attachment Difficulties

  • Bereavement, Grief & Loss

  • Body Image/ Body Dysmorphia

  • Burnout

  • Childhood Emotional Neglect

  • Cultural Identity & Belonging

  • Depression

  • Domestic Abuse

  • Eating Disorders

  • Family Expectations & Cultural Guilt

  • Human Trafficking/ Sex Crimes

  • Imposter Syndrome

  • Intergenerational Conflict

  • Intercultural Relationships

  • International Students

  • Leadership

  • Life Transitions: Marriage, Parenthood, Migration…

  • Low Self-Esteem

  • Male Mental Health & Identity

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

  • Parenting

  • Phobias & Fears

  • Planning a Family

  • PTSD & Trauma

  • Relationship Issues

  • Self-Harm

  • Suicidal Ideation

My core attitude towards therapeutic work

Love, compassion, empathy and challenge are embedded at the core of my work. Also, 'Sewa', a principle anchored within the Sikh faith, which is framed in advocating acts of selflessness, in the West, this principle translates closely to altruism, which is an attitude present in therapeutic work. 

Furthermore, the simple act of listening is often taken for granted – from a personal perspective, I believe it is a form of emotional presence on the part of the therapist.  And clients will instinctively know this, as trust develops, this creates the beginning of a significant journey between client and therapist, which subsequently leads to collaborative and reparative work. 

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