About Layla
Layla Kareem is a BACP counsellor who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and coping with major life changes. Layla aims to make the first steps into therapy less intimidating.
She offers a calm, non-judgemental space and listens with warmth and patience. Layla describes her approach as flexible and person-centred. She invites people to say what they need from sessions and pays attention to personal values and meaning.
Background and approach
Practical thinking about thoughts and behaviours is blended with deeper discussion about attachment and emotional patterns. In sessions Layla uses a mix of talking and reflective exercises. She draws on ideas from cognitive behavioural ways of working to spot unhelpful thinking.
She also uses attachment-focused and emotionally focused ideas to look at how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Her practice has an existential thread that encourages people to consider purpose, choice and responsibility. That can be useful when someone feels stuck or drained by life events.
Layla also brings person-centred listening that prioritises the client’s experience and rhythm of change. Layla has six years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She works online and offers text-based sessions alongside other remote formats.
Sessions are tailored to individual needs and paced to suit each person’s comfort and goals.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape how people relate now. Online sessions can help identify those patterns and practice different ways of connecting and responding to stress. Client-centred therapy emphasises being listened to without judgement and following the client’s pace; this approach helps people feel heard and seen even when talking remotely. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on recognising and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours; it often uses concrete exercises that adapt well to remote formats.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, personal preferences and practical needs and then suggest ways of working together. That collaborative discussion helps decide whether to emphasise practical CBT tasks, attachment exploration or a person-centred listening approach.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes therapy easier to fit around work and family life. Video suits deeper conversations, phone calls use less bandwidth, live chat is helpful for short check-ins and messaging can support ongoing reflection between meetings. Registered and accredited professionals can use these formats to keep sessions steady, flexible and matched to how the client prefers to communicate.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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