About Boutaina
Boutaina Rahal is a psychotherapist who works with adults facing anxiety, stress and the aftermath of trauma. She speaks English and Arabic and brings 20 years of national and international experience to sessions. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
She focuses on helping people cope with depression, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties and life changes. She also supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, career worries, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related challenges.
Background and approach
Concerns such as identity, cultural issues and intimacy-related problems are part of her work too. Boutaina uses a blend of approaches that suits each person. She draws on client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques and emotionally-focused work to clarify feelings and try new behaviours.
She also incorporates existential and Jungian ideas when exploring meaning and deeper patterns. Her background includes long-term work with survivors of abuse and trauma, and a record of supporting people through PTSD symptoms, stress reactions and low motivation. She also holds a British Sign Language certificate and is learning French and Spanish.
Boutaina frames change as a collaborative process where the person is the expert in their own life. In sessions she aims to find practical ways to manage symptoms and to strengthen personal resources. She encourages small, steady steps and pays attention to cultural context and personal values.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding without judgement. It helps people who need a calm space to talk through feelings and to find their own solutions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. It offers practical strategies for anxiety, stress and low mood, such as testing unhelpful thoughts and trying new coping skills.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions and attachment patterns in relationships. It can help when intimacy, grief or communication problems are the main concerns.
Choosing the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then try methods together to see what helps. Clients and therapist adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful when visual connection helps the conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging can suit quick updates or days when writing feels easier. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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