About Roda
Roda Ali is a counsellor with 11 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety and other life challenges. She supports those facing relationship strain, grief, trauma and low self-esteem. She also works with concerns such as addiction, parenting pressures and career changes.
Roda uses clear, practical methods so people can take small steps forward. Her approach is gentle and down to earth. She listens first and builds on each person’s strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding patterns that cause distress and finding workable ways to change them. That might include learning new ways to think about problems or practising calming skills. Roda draws on client-centred ideas to keep sessions focused on the person’s priorities.
She also uses attachment-based thinking to explore how past bonds affect current relationships. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when unhelpful thoughts and behaviours need direct attention. She has worked with trauma related to domestic violence, forced migration and people trafficking, and with panic attacks and major life transitions.
Roda supports people through bereavement and major adjustment, and helps those dealing with isolation, multicultural strain and discrimination. Sessions are offered in English and Somali. Roda is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She provides both short-term and longer-term counselling to suit different needs.
How Roda’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people notice repeating patterns. This can be useful for relationship strain, codependency and trust issues. Client-centred counselling focuses on the person in the room, offering space to talk and be heard while the counsellor follows the client’s lead. It suits people who need to make sense of feelings or life changes.Cognitive behavioural techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and replace them with more useful alternatives. These methods are often helpful for anxiety, panic and low mood because they give clear steps to practise between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Roda will listen to your goals, try different methods and adapt what she does based on what helps most. That choice is collaborative and can change over time as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options give flexibility for different schedules and practical needs, while keeping the focus on the therapeutic goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Somali
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