About Noreen
Noreen Akhtar helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression and relationship strain. She also supports people coping with trauma and abuse, anger, compassion fatigue and major life changes. Noreen writes plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
Noreen keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters to the client right now. She listens without judgement and encourages practical steps that can be tried between meetings.
Background and approach
Conversations can cover emotions, patterns in relationships, or ways to manage distressing thoughts and reactions. Her practice draws on several psychological approaches to match what each person needs. Noreen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas to help people notice their patterns and try different ways of coping.
She also draws on client-centred principles to keep the person’s experience central. Noreen has seven years of experience working with a range of difficulties, including issues linked to adoption and foster care, family of origin problems, fertility concerns and long-term illness. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials as listed and works from the United Kingdom.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients who prefer online work. If someone is nervous about starting, Noreen aims to make the process gentle and practical, supporting clients to set clear goals and small steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online working
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and to focus on what matters most in life. ACT can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with chronic stress by encouraging values-based action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It teaches practical strategies to test unhelpful thinking and to build new coping skills, which can help with anxiety, depression and worry. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns and is useful for people struggling with relationship trust, abandonment concerns or family of origin issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and together with the client decide what to try first, based on goals and what feels manageable. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is good for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can fit around busy days or lower bandwidth, and messaging or chat suit brief check-ins or those who prefer written exchanges. These options aim to make it easier to access regular support from a registered or accredited professional wherever the client is located.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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