About Soban
Soban Amir is a counsellor with five years' experience who works with people feeling anxious, stressed, or disconnected. He offers a calm, non-judgemental space where someone can begin to talk about what feels overwhelming. Soban speaks English, Hindi and Urdu and practices in the United Kingdom.
He frames therapy around plain, practical conversation. Sessions aim to help people notice what matters to them, learn small tools to manage distress, and try new ways of acting in difficult moments.
Background and approach
Typical concerns he sees include anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, relationship and intimacy worries, and struggles with career or addictive patterns. Soban draws on a mix of approaches so sessions can be tailored to each person. He uses ideas from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and accept difficult thoughts.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thinking and build alternative skills. Client-Centred and Solution-Focused ideas shape sessions to be warm, goal-oriented, and collaborative. He also supports people with family of origin difficulties, communication and commitment issues, body image concerns, caregiving stress, and challenges after separation or divorce.
Work with LGBT clients, intimacy-related problems and parenting strain are included in his general practice. Soban describes his stance as supportive and direct. He aims to listen first, then offer practical steps you can try between sessions.
Most people find the combination of understanding and specific strategies helpful when they need relief from persistent worry.
Approaches you can try in online sessions
Soban commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people name what matters to them and to make space for hard thoughts while taking action towards those values. It can help when worry or avoidance holds someone back. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and build coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Soban treats this as a collaborative process and will help you decide which methods suit your goals and preferences. Together you can try different techniques and adjust the plan as you learn what helps.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Urdu
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