About Yunus
Yunus Mohamed is a counsellor with more than two decades of experience. He offers calm, straightforward support for people dealing with stress, anxiety and major life changes. Sessions are aimed at helping a person feel listened to and find practical steps forward.
He trained with a BSc (Hons) in Professional Counselling from the University of Salford and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often written as BACP.
Background and approach
His long career began in community mental health work and led to founding a counselling service in Bolton in 2007. Yunus draws on a client-centred foundation that values empathy, acceptance and genuineness. He combines that with goal-oriented methods such as cognitive behavioural ideas and solution-focused techniques to help people manage symptoms and try new ways of coping.
He also brings trauma-focused practice when past events are affecting daily life. He will work at a pace the person feels able to tolerate and focus on clear, manageable steps between sessions. Yunus has worked with a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, grief, addictions, anger, parenting stress and eating issues.
He speaks English, Gujarati, Hindi and Urdu, and is willing to work with people internationally by online or phone sessions.
How these approaches work online
Yunus commonly uses client-centred work and cognitive behavioural ideas when working online. Client-centred work focuses on listening, acceptance and building trust so a person can talk openly and identify what matters most. Cognitive behavioural ideas look at thoughts and behaviours together, helping a person try small experiments to reduce anxiety or manage mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences and how you respond to different techniques. Together you can try different ways of working and agree what feels most helpful for your situation.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls let you see non-verbal cues and work more closely on practice exercises. Phone sessions can be quicker to arrange and use less data. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for short check-ins or when writing helps you reflect. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu
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