About Yasmeen
Yasmeen Desnavi is a counsellor who helps people with stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She welcomes conversations in English and Urdu and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and practical for anyone looking for support. Her practice mixes several approaches to suit each person.
Yasmeen draws on client-centred work to prioritise what matters to the individual. She uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot patterns that keep problems going and to build new coping steps.
Background and approach
Yasmeen trained in psychology and holds BACP accreditation. She has three years of hands-on experience working in multinational organisations and community services, and she has offered support through hospital cancer services in Manchester. That background informs how she supports people facing illness and caregiving strain.
Sessions are shaped around clear goals. Yasmeen offers practical tools for reducing anxiety, improving communication and building confidence. She will listen first, then suggest short exercises or ways of thinking to try between meetings.
The tone in sessions is warm and non-judgemental. Yasmeen aims to create a space where people can talk about difficult feelings and take small, steady steps towards change. Therapy is presented as a collaborative process rather than a one-size-fits-all fix.
How Yasmeen's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and views. It means the counsellor listens closely and helps people find their own solutions, which can help with anxiety and low self-esteem. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and introduces simple, practical exercises to change them; this can be useful for stress, anxiety and depression.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Yasmeen will discuss options and try methods that match a person's goals and preferences, adapting as progress is made. The aim is to agree a clear plan and adjust it in response to what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a faster check-in and messaging supports short reflections between meetings. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and make it easier to keep up regular contact with a therapist.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Urdu
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