I'm a BACP registered psychodynamic psychotherapist offering online therapy for adults, with specialist experience supporting Muslim women navigating identity, faith and family.
I'm an online Muslim therapist offering psychodynamic psychotherapy and counselling for adults across the UK. I work with Muslim women navigating anxiety, depression, abusive relationships, divorce, complex childhood trauma and difficult family dynamics.
Sessions are held online, so you can speak from a space that feels safe to you, wherever you are in the UK. As a Muslim woman myself, I bring a lived understanding of holding faith, family expectations and your own becoming all at once. A free 15 minute introductory call is offered before booking, so you can see whether working together feels like the right fit.
My approach is reflective, relational and rooted in psychodynamic thinking. The premise is simple: our earliest relationships and experiences quietly shape how we feel, think and connect in the present. Many of my clients come to therapy because something feels stuck: a pattern that keeps repeating, an anxiety that won't lift, a sense that they're holding too much alone.
I bring over eight years of experience in psychology and mental health, alongside lived understanding of what it means to navigate more than one culture, faith and set of expectations. For many of the women I work with, that dual awareness matters. It means you don't have to explain the basics of izzat, family duty or the quiet weight of being the first in your family to seek therapy.
Sessions are held online, which means you can speak from a space that feels safe to you, whether that's a room at home, a parked car or somewhere away from the people you live with. I welcome enquiries from anyone, regardless of background. A free 15 minute consultation is offered before booking, so you can see whether working together feels like the right fit.
I'm a BACP registered psychodynamic psychotherapist. BACP is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, the UK's leading professional body for talking therapies. Being BACP registered means meeting strict training, ethics and supervision standards, with accountability to a public complaints process.
I work with adults navigating a wide range of experiences. The themes below come up often, but you don't need to fit a category to reach out.
When worry has become the background noise of your life or when the body holds tension your mind hasn't yet found words for.
The flatness, the loss of interest, the heaviness that can be hard to explain even to yourself. We make sense of it together, slowly.
For Muslim women and second generation clients holding tension between who you are, who you were raised to be and who you're becoming.
Marriage, parents, in-laws, friendships. The intergenerational patterns that follow us and the work of finding your own ground within them.
What was buried but never resolved. We move at your pace, therapy should never feel like reliving something alone.
The inner critic that won't quieten, the quiet sense that something is missing. Building self compassion and a steadier sense of who you are.
Psychodynamic therapy is built on a simple idea: the past doesn't stay in the past. Our earliest relationships, with parents, siblings, the cultures and faiths we were raised in, quietly shape how we love, work, feel and protect ourselves as adults.
In sessions, I won't hand you a worksheet or a five step plan. Instead, we make space, for what comes up, for what's been hard to say, for the patterns you've noticed but couldn't name. Over time, understanding what's underneath your distress is what creates lasting change.
It's slower than some other therapies. It's also, for many of my clients, the first time anyone has really listened to the whole of them, not just the symptom, but the person.
I'm trained at Birkbeck (MSc Psychodynamic Counselling & Psychotherapy), City, University of London and Brunel University and registered with the BACP, BAATN and NCPS.
Reflections written for the people I most often work with, Muslim women, second generation clients and anyone navigating identity and inheritance.
A question many Muslim women carry privately before they ever pick up the phone. Here's how I think about it, as a Muslim woman and as a therapist.
What "culturally sensitive" really means and what to look for when you want a therapist who understands more than just the surface of your life.
On living between cultures, the quiet cost of holding too much and why therapy can be a place where you don't have to translate yourself.
A free 15 minute introductory call is offered before booking, so we can see whether working together feels right.
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