Individual Therapy
In Individual Therapy, you have a space each week to focus on your issues and needs in a safe, supportive and, if needed, challenging environment.
You may be seeking therapy for help with a variety of issues that are hard to face alone. Because of the scale of your problems or because your existing coping mechanisms no longer work, you may need help to work through what’s going on and develop new ways of coping.
Therapy will allow you to explore your feelings, beliefs, and behaviours, work through challenging memories, identify aspects of your life that you would like to change, better understand yourself and your relationships with others, set personal goals, and work towards desired change.
Couples Therapy
Problems and conflict in intimate relationships are normal. It is often easier to speak to your partner about what is not working in your relationship in the presence of a neutral professional.
Couples counselling can help identify problems that affect a couple’s quality of life. It can also help you communicate more effectively and resolve your differences in a much healthier way.
I work with a wide range of couples of different cultural backgrounds and sexual orientations. Issues that are typically worked through in couples counselling include:
- affairs
- conflict & anger
- poor communication
- life transitions
- sexual difficulties
- separation & divorce
Each counselling session lasts 60 minutes. The initial session is an assessment session, where you can talk about your problems, and for myself to think about how I can help you. You can then decide if you would like to continue the work with me.
LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Therapy
LGBTQIA+ individuals often seek out psychotherapy for the same reasons non-LGBTQIA+ people do. Perhaps you’re struggling with depression, experiencing low self-esteem, or lost somebody close to you and want support through the grieving process.
On the other hand, LGBTQIA + individuals have unique struggles related to their sexual identity, gender identity and/or gender expression.
LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Therapy can be helpful for issues related, and also not related, to your gender and sexuality because in affirmative therapy, you will not be judged or forced to be anything that you aren’t. An LGBTQIA+ affirmative therapist like myself is aware of the impact of discrimination and shame that LGBTQIA+ clients may have experienced.
Instead, I will be there to accept you and all your identities, and help you to achieve your therapeutic goals.
I work with LGBTQIA+ clients privately and also am a volunteer therapist at LGBT Wellbeing, Scotland.
Cross-Cultural Therapy
Psychotherapists and counsellors often do not take into account – or are simply unaware of – the racial and cultural identity of their clients. Instead, they sometimes mistakenly adopt a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach.
In Cross-cultural Counselling, the importance of race, culture, belief, values, attitudes, and religion of an increasingly multicultural society are taken into account, and responded to sensitively and with understanding.
As a second-generation British-Asian who straddles both Western and Eastern cultures, I draw upon my own personal and lived experience to understand how the sometimes-unique challenges of experiencing racial and cultural divides/issues may be affecting you. You won’t have to first work out or worry if I ‘get it’ when telling me your story.