​

• Online, telephone in person sessions

• Weekdays & Sundays, daytime and evenings

• Short-term & long-term

• Weekly or fortnightly 50-minutes (same day/same time)

• Free cancellation 24 hours before session

• 15-minute free of charge online/telephone contact before first booking

• You can stop booking appointments anytime

​

 WHAT TO EXPECT FROM SESSIONS (click here for more information) 
 

CONFIDENTIALITY
If you come to see a counsellor, you want to explore issues that are personal and often highly sensitive. I therefore offer a confidential, non-judgmental space for my clients when I meet them in person or via secure telecommunication services.

​

​AREAS IN WHICH I CAN SUPPORT YOU

• International relocations/assignments, high mobility & Third Culture Kid (TCK/ATCK) lifestyle, life as trailing spouse, global nomadism, coping with impact of multiple relocations/exile

• (Re-)Migration and culture-related issues:
  Belonging/home, identity, culture shock, coping & engaging with otherness, loss, loneliness, sadness, anger, multicultural partnerships, adapting to culturally different school/university, discrimination

• Important life transitions:
  Moving away from home, to university or abroad, parenthood, job change, empty nest syndrome, retirement

• Support and personal therapy during counselling/psychotherapy training

• Parenting, raising multicultural children in country of origin & abroad

• Coping with everyday challenges & stress

• Self-exploration & personal development, life & development coaching

• Relational difficulties & boundary issues with parents, partner, friends and at work

• Study & work related challenges

• Faith-related issues including interfaith relationships and religious conversion

• Loss, bereavement

• Guilt, shame, self-hatred, panic attacks, anxiety

• Trauma, PTSD, dissociation, experience of war

• Domestic violence, physical, emotional & sexual abuse

• Psychoeducation around mental health and impact of international relocations

​

WHY AM I SO PASSIONATE ABOUT CULTURE AND MIGRATION-RELATED ISSUES?
 

I have been a migrant for the past 30 years. Living and raising children abroad has taught me a lot about what it means to be part of a minority and to not always look, think, feel or act like the locals. Multicultural lives are exciting, but they can also be challenging and stressful. I therefore offer specialized culture-sensitive support and mentoring for multicultural clients, migrants and refugees.

​

As the mainstream Western approach does not fit the needs of all my clients, I attended numerous "Continuing Professional Developments (CPDs)" and intercultural workshops in the UK, Germany, France, US and the Middle East. To support Muslim clients better, I enrolled on two cpcab accredited therapy courses at the "Institute of Islamic Counselling & Well-Being", London. I currently study towards the PGDip "Psychiatry and transcultural competences" under the direction of Prof. Marie Rose Moro.

​​​

GETTING IN TOUCH

Asking for help takes a lot of courage.
 

Research shows that people make the best therapeutic progress when they feel that they have a good working relationship with a trustworthy therapist, irrespective of the particular therapeutic approach this person offers. I therefore offer a free of charge 15-minute online/telephone conversation to help you decide if you think I am THIS counsellor for you. Please do not hesitate and contact me to see what I can do for you.

​

FEES

• Sliding scale of rates depending on the location/time slot for therapy.

• Reduced fees for students.

• Please contact me for details.

​

EXPERIENCE

In the UK, I have experience seeing local and international clients at a variety of mental health services including:

• Sangam - Association of Asian Women, London

• Barnet Refugee Service, London

• CPPD Counselling Services, London

• MigraConsult, London & Online

Abroad, I worked for:

• Doctors of the World, Munich

​

QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD on "First Impression and Social Judgment in an Intercultural Context"
  (University Osnabrück/Germany)

• "Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling"
  (CPPD Counselling School, London/UK, BACP accrredited training)

• "Counselling Studies - Faith-Based Counselling" Levels 2 & 3
  (cpcab/UK)

• "Certified Non-Medical Practitioner for Psychotherapy"
  ("Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie", Munich/Germany)

​​

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• “British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP”
  (Registered Member No. 378542)

• "International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology" (IACCP)

• "The British Psychological Society" (BPS)

• "Association Internationale d'Ethnopsychanalyse" (AIEP)

"

I speak English, French, German, Spanish and elementary Modern Standard Arabic.