About Sayma
Sayma Arshad is a BACP counsellor with 13 years' experience supporting people through stress and anxiety. She presents a calm, patient manner and aims to make first conversations feel straightforward and safe. Sayma listens closely and helps clients find practical ways to cope with difficult feelings.
Her background includes social work and frontline roles in the NHS, social services and charities. That work gives her a broad view of how life events, relationships and diagnosis can affect daily functioning.
Background and approach
She has worked alongside mental health professionals and with people who have learning disabilities and complex needs. Sayma uses a blend of approaches to suit each person's needs. She draws on client-centred and attachment-based ideas to build trust.
Cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness are used to help manage anxious thoughts and stress. Emotion-focused ideas support work on relationships and intimacy-related concerns. She has experience with a wide range of issues including depression, grief, relationship problems, parenting strain, trauma and addiction.
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger and career-related stress. Sayma pays attention to each client's goals and tailors sessions to practical change. In sessions she aims to be warm and interactive, combining logical problem-solving with an intuitive sense of what each person needs.
Her practice emphasises a steady therapeutic relationship and short-term strategies alongside deeper exploration when useful. People can expect straightforward language and step-by-step plans as well as space to tell their story.
How Sayma's approaches work online
Sayma uses client-centred work to prioritise what matters most to the person. This approach means sessions focus on listening, building a trusting relationship and letting the client lead the pace of work. It helps when someone needs to be heard and understood before making changes.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep anxiety and stress high. CBT helps with practical tools such as spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavioural changes to reduce worry.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that suit their goals and preferences. That means trying things out, checking what helps and adjusting the plan when needed so work stays relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit short check-ins or people who prefer written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping a steady therapeutic relationship with registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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