About Sunah
Sunah Akhtar is a counsellor who helps people manage anxiety, stress and major life changes. She works in a straightforward, warm way and aims to make sessions feel calm and focused for anyone who wants clearer thinking and steadier mood.
Sunah brings nine years of practice to her work and is a BACP member, which means she follows the professional standards of that organisation. She has supported people through anxiety, panic attacks, depression, low self-esteem and relationship and attachment difficulties.
Background and approach
Her background includes a long placement providing emotional support in community services. Her approach mixes practical techniques and a person-centred style. She uses tools from cognitive behavioural work and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new responses.
Attachment-based ideas help when relationship memories and early bonds affect current feelings. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Sunah helps clients set small, manageable steps and teaches skills they can use between meetings.
She also works with issues related to trauma, grief, addiction and life transitions, tailoring each plan to the individual. Sunah offers therapy in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, and she is available to work with people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Practical online options are part of her practice, alongside in-person sessions, so clients can choose what fits their life.
Practical therapy approaches for online sessions
Sunah commonly uses cognitive behavioural techniques and acceptance and commitment ideas to help people change thought patterns and take values-based action. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing and adjusting unhelpful thoughts and behaviours to reduce anxiety and low mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that reflect their priorities, which can be useful for anxiety and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, then choose or combine methods with the client. That way sessions stay collaborative and adapt as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which make therapy easier to fit around busy lives. Video lets you keep a visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging can support ongoing reflection between appointments. These options allow flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
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