About Ayaz
Ayaz Akhtar is a psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom with five years of clinical practice. He works with adults and adolescents on everyday struggles such as anxiety, stress and low mood. He also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting pressures and career uncertainty.
Ayaz has experience with trauma, emotional abuse and complex presentations including personality disorder symptoms and ADHD. He aims to meet people with sensitivity, respect and a non-judgemental attitude.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and focused on the changes a person wants to make. His style is practical and person-centred. Ayaz adapts conversations and treatment plans to each individual rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach.
He encourages clear goals and steady steps towards them. Ayaz draws on a range of therapy models to suit different needs. He blends attachment-informed work, client-centred conversation, skills from dialectical behaviour therapy and trauma-focused methods when helpful.
This variety lets him match methods to the issue and the person. People who prefer an open, collaborative counsellor may find his approach helpful. He aims to offer a calm space for talking things through and building coping skills.
Ayaz emphasises practical strategies alongside exploring deeper patterns of behaviour and feeling.
How online therapy uses different approaches
Ayaz often combines client-centred work and attachment-based ideas. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what a person says to build understanding and self-direction. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change unhelpful ways of relating.He also draws on dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) skills when difficulties with emotion regulation or impulsivity are present. DBT offers practical techniques for managing strong feelings, improving distress tolerance and reducing impulsive actions. These approaches can be used together depending on what a person wants to work on and how they respond.
Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the process and will be decided collaboratively. The therapist will discuss goals, try approaches that fit, and adjust over time based on what helps most. That shared decision-making means the work stays focused on the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy makes these approaches more accessible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, live chat supports shorter check-ins and text-based messaging can suit ongoing reflection between sessions. Together these options offer flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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