About Aamirah
Aamirah Khan is a counsellor with twelve years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety and relationship worries. She also supports clients dealing with trauma, family conflict, low self esteem, mood difficulties and life changes. She practises in the United Kingdom and speaks English and Urdu.
Her approach blends practical talking therapy with coaching. Sessions focus on noticing thoughts and feelings, learning clearer ways to act, and setting achievable goals.
Background and approach
Clients can expect down-to-earth conversation and step-by-step skills rather than technical jargon. Aamirah uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns. She draws on acceptance and commitment methods to encourage values-based choices.
She also uses attachment-informed thinking to make sense of relationship patterns. Many sessions centre on everyday problems such as sleep, eating or work stress. Aamirah also addresses more complex difficulties like trauma, bipolar mood concerns and compassion fatigue.
She aims to tailor conversations to what feels most useful for each person. She describes her space as non-judgemental and collaborative. People can bring small worries or long-standing problems and work at a pace that suits them.
Getting started simply requires a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Approaches and online delivery that fit your life
Aamirah commonly uses cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioural therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions to test new ideas. Acceptance and commitment therapy supports people to clarify what matters to them and to take steps that match those values even when feelings are difficult.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand patterns in relationships and to find kinder ways of relating. Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to decide which approaches suit their needs, goals and personal preferences as therapy progresses.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets you use visual cues and mirror an in-person discussion. Phone sessions can fit into a short break and use less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging suits quick check-ins and people who prefer typing to speaking. This variety makes it easier to keep therapy going around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Urdu
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