About Shazia
Shazia Datoobhoy is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. She also supports those affected by trauma and abuse, depression, grief and difficulties like addictions or problems with self-esteem. She routinely works in English and Hindi and practises from the United Kingdom.
Her way of working is conversational and reflective. She asks practical questions, invites clients to notice patterns, and helps them see how past experiences shape present reactions.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make sense of difficult feelings and find manageable next steps rather than promise quick fixes. Many clients come with complex histories such as childhood trauma, domestic or sexual abuse, bullying, or separation. Shazia pays attention to how those events can shape intimacy, attachment and control issues.
She also addresses eating and body image concerns, codependency, dissociation and anger when these arise. Shazia draws on approaches like client-centred work and trauma-focused methods to guide the conversation. She brings four years of experience and is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP.
That registration is shown as BACP on her profile. Work is collaborative and paced to the person. The aim is to help clients understand themselves better, practise new responses and gradually build more satisfying routines and relationships.
Practical tools, story-based reflection and attention to early attachment are used as appropriate.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centred work focuses on the person in front of the therapist and on listening with empathy. It helps when people need someone to reflect their experience back and to feel understood before making changes.Narrative therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their lives. It helps separate a person from their problems and can be useful for struggles with identity, shame or repeated patterns in relationships.
Trauma-focused approaches pay attention to how painful events affect emotions and behaviour today. They aim to help people make sense of trauma responses and to develop safer ways of coping with triggers and reminders.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that fit the person’s needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help therapy fit around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi
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