About Ghada
Ghada Akkad is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who draws on person-centred and evidence-informed approaches to help people manage anxiety and stress. She works in English and Arabic and brings five years of professional experience to sessions. Ghada aims to make the first steps into therapy feel less daunting and more manageable.
Ghada believes people know their own story and that therapy is a place to build on existing strengths.
Background and approach
She uses everyday language and practical tools so conversations feel clear and useful. Sessions can include breathing and mindfulness exercises, thinking-behaviour strategies, and skills to cope with strong emotions. She supports people dealing with relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression and life transitions.
Ghada also addresses issues such as grief, trauma and compassion fatigue, and helps those facing obsessions, compulsions and family problems. Immigration and multicultural concerns are part of her practice too. Her style is warm and straightforward.
Sessions may include gentle humour, creative exercises, and real talk about what is working and what is not. Ghada focuses on goals clients set together and practical steps to reach them. People can expect a collaborative process that combines acceptance, mindfulness, and cognitive skills.
Ghada aims to leave clients with simple strategies they can use after therapy ends. She offers video, phone, chat and messaging formats to suit different needs.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often shortened to ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then focus on values-based actions. It is useful for anxiety, stress and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches concrete techniques to change reactions and behaviours. It often helps with anxiety, OCD symptoms and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods and adjust the approach as needed so therapy fits the person's life.
Online sessions can make therapy easier to fit in. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions can be shorter or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing reflections and when writing helps to organise thoughts. These options give flexibility so the person can choose what suits them best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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