About Shadi
Shadi Shayan is a counsellor registered with the HCPC who draws on a decade of experience supporting people through stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Persian and works with adults who want clearer thinking and steadier moods. Her approach is straightforward and respectful.
She aims to make first steps feel manageable for worried parents reading on a phone. Shadi focuses on everyday pressures such as relationship strain, parenting challenges and low self‑esteem.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing abandonment or attachment concerns, control issues, feelings of emptiness, and questions about life purpose. Sessions often include practical conversation about what is happening now and small changes to try between meetings. Her style is warm and sensitive.
Shadi adapts the pace and topics to each person rather than following a fixed script. She listens for recurring patterns, for example around jealousy, guilt and shame, or difficulties adjusting after immigration, and then works with the client to test different ways of responding.
Over ten years she has supported people with fatherhood issues, midlife worries, phobias and the ups and downs common in young adulthood. She keeps goals realistic and checks progress regularly. The work combines talking, planning and practising new habits outside sessions.
Shadi uses an individualised plan that reflects each person’s needs and values. She encourages honest conversation and steady steps forward, helping people build more confidence and a clearer sense of direction.
How evidence based techniques work online
Shadi uses well established, evidence based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building practical coping skills. One common method helps people notice and rethink anxious or negative thoughts so they lead to calmer actions rather than avoidance. This approach is useful for worry, phobias and persistent anxiety.She also draws on therapy that concentrates on relationships and attachment patterns. That work explores how past relationships influence current reactions and helps people try new ways of relating, which can ease jealousy, abandonment fears and family tensions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with each person about their goals, life context and what feels most useful, then decide together which techniques to try. That collaborative planning makes it easier to adjust methods as progress is reviewed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text based messaging. Video is good for a fuller conversation and reading non verbal cues. Phone sessions can suit shorter check ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let people fit therapy into busy days and can be useful for ongoing support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Persian
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