•  I specialise in offering supportive counselling to clients wanting to have better relationships in their lives. Either with their self, others or the world around them. 

• I aim to offer clients a safe and nurturing space where you can find some clarity in dealing with your life hurdles and difficulties.  Working towards having better relationship with self and others and improving vastly your quality of life.

• I specialise in working with relationship counselling, trauma, neurodivergence, anger issues, addiction, disordered eating. Experienced in working with a range of issues.  including identity and sexuality. I am confident with the right support you can make progress.

• I am very interested in the many types of relationships we have and how they affect our everyday lives. The reality is we cannot avoid relationships. Problems with relationships in our lives can leave us feeling misunderstood, anxious, angry or depressed.

Trained in an Intergrative Relational Approach, I have evolved  in offering a “Pluralistic Approach” to my clients. Taking a Pluralistic Approach with my clients means I can offer a tailor-made approach which truly honours the uniqueness of my individual clients and their specific needs.

• ADHD Certified Practitioner – Strength Based Model For 
• Stress Studies Certificate With The Trauma Foundation 
• Practitioner Programme, Eating Disorders & Obesity
• Training further Cognitive Behavioural Therapies at Derby University.
• CBT-E Eating Disorders CREDO Oxford University
• Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling at Leeds Beckett University.
• Certificate in Counselling Skills
• Reiki Masters Practitioner

• Accredited  Member of the BACP. and adhere to their ethical guidelines.

I support further my studies with an ongoing commitment to my personal and professional development especially in  the Creative Therapies and Neuroscience. I bring to the profession my significant diverse life and cultural experiences which enhance my offering as a therapist.

My Other Roles

• Regional Leeds Ambassador for The Creative Counsellors Club
• CEO of Watoto Play Ltd – Makers & Creators of Digital Therapy Tools & Training Programs. 
• Brand Owner Polyvagal Teen®, The Hearts Whisper® & Neurosloth®

I am a late diagnosed neurodivergent counsellor who has lived experience of bereaved by suicide. 

I am well versed in many cultures and religions having personal and professional experience within Muslim and Christian communities. Always eager to extend my knowledge and learn more, I can assure you I offer space without any judgment – all in the strictest of confidence.

A previous career in business and having been a self-employed entrepreneur managing others lends me well to understanding how the stress of uncertainty and responsibility in our professions can consume our personal lives and health.

Some additional training & lectures I have recently attended

• The Oxford Trauma Conference 2023 
• 8 Week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course
• Working with Difference – Use of Cultured Self
• Islam and Sexuality
• Mental Health Stigma in Muslim Communities
• USV React: Training to respond to disclosures of sexual violence
• Exploring Creative Counselling Interventions
• Writing a collection of Poetry in a Year.

Through supportive counselling I want to help you find your own identity, your individuality – by giving you space to  be “yourself”. Wanting to help you discover the  ultimate power your relationship with self and others brings. I value individual difference and I appreciate the struggle in being honest to yourself and others.

I don’t have the answers for you (although I may have a suggestion or two) nor do I claim to be a “fixer”. And you won’t find me “telling you what to do”. I firmly believe we can all be empowered to find our own answers with care and a supportive counselling environment. It is my core belief we are all born with the need to grow and the capacity to embrace change, I can share highly effective strategies which will help you do this.

What I do know is our capacity for change is nurtured through relationships. A supportive counselling relationship. It is my intention our relationship will be the catalyst to promote positive change in your life. I am OK to sit with people in chaos, in conflict, in pain. I can accept stuckness.  I am not saying you will change (this dependent on a number of variables). 

Sometimes people can’t change or it’s not the right time, and that’s O.K too. I am here to work with you at your pace. I am not nervous to feel fearful or afraid to sit in silence if need be keeping you company. But at the same time I will be kindly proactive.

Through our supportive counselling sessions  I will support you when you are trying to find clarity in your life. I can offer you a safe space and time to reflect on making difficult decisions and changes in your life.

The change might even be accepting you can’t change. I can offer compassion, empathy, understanding, acceptance, and a place for you to be “truly heard”.