Frequently Asked Questions

How long are the sessions?

One-to-one counselling sessions last 50 minutes and most clients book on a weekly basis allowing for consistency and to help maintain focus on challenges you may be working through.

How many sessions will I need?

This is something we can discuss at your initial meeting with me. It is recommended you allow for at least 6 sessions to give yourself some time to build a relationship with me and begin working through the problems or issues that have brought you to counselling.

Are appointment times flexible?

I understand clients may have varying work patterns which can make it challenging to get to counselling. I can offer some flexibility around appointment times and we can discuss this together.

 

How do you work?

I have a user-centred approach, which means I work with the client and use various creative methods that works for clients to help explore and access blocked emotions and process past trauma. There are usually two parts to the counselling process:

  1. Build safety in the here and now and work on managing triggers and helping ground the client.

  2. The second part is to use various methods that are appropriate for the client of exposure therapy and inner child work to help process past experiences and unlearn any unhealthy coping mechanisms and ways of relating we may have developed. This should help clients to be able to move forward with tools that will help them going forwards.

What are your qualifications?

I completed my qualification as an Integrative Therapeutic Counsellor in 2014. I am a Member of the BACP and adhere to their ethical framework and guidelines in the work I carry out as a therapist.

Additional qualifications and trainings:

  • facilitator of the Freedom Programme (domestic abuse awareness programme) to groups and individuals

  • PGL-Parent Group Leader for Family Links, a 10 week parenting programme and Talking Teens a 5 week parenting Programme.

  • AET Tutor

  • created and lead the ROSE Programme - my signature 10 week therapy programme online and in-person

  • Certified Hypno-EMDR Practitioner

  • RESPECT- Perpetrator Programme trained facilitator 24 week 1:1 and groups

  • A range of other ongoing relevant CPD

How experienced are you?

Since I qualified as a counsellor in 2014 and a trauma therapist in 2016 I have:

  • worked as a high school counsellor

  • worked in a rape crisis centre with victims of sexual and domestic abuse and sex trafficking

  • worked with private one-to-one clients

  • worked with clients referred by local authorities and community agencies

  • delivered multiple domestic abuse awareness programmes and parenting programmes for local authorities and community bodies

  • provided domestic violence counselling and relationship counselling on behalf of local authorities

  • created and lead the ROSE Programme - my signature 10 week therapy programme online and in-person.

 

Do you offer telephone or online sessions?

I offer face to face, telephone and online sessions and am based in Uxbridge, West London.

Although a face to face session is the traditional style of counselling I work with many international and local clients where distance or work commitments means the face to face sessions are just not suitable. Clients that have moved to telephone or online (Skype, Zoom, Whats app) have found them just as beneficial and feel they have been able to continue therapy at the same level as the sessions in person.

Are you supervised?

I have a supervisor to help me ethically manage and process my work with clients. I attend regular group supervision sessions also.

What languages do you work in?

I run sessions usually in English and have delivered many session in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi. I am fluent in these languages and can deliver sessions face-to-face or online.

I am experienced with working with interpreters. I deliver sessions with an interpreter present, when required for various community referrals and group programmes.