About Aamirah
Aamirah Khan helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, low or overwhelmed. She supports those coping with depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, and the strain of work or caregiving. Aamirah also helps with relationship and family concerns, eating and sleeping struggles, anger, low self-esteem and life changes.
Aamirah is a BACP counsellor with 12 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She offers straightforward, calm sessions that aim to clarify problems and set achievable goals.
How Aamirah works
Sessions are conversational and centred on the person seeking help rather than on clinical jargon. In practice she blends practical therapy with coaching. That means she helps people understand how their thinking affects feelings and actions, then works with them to try new ways of coping.
Tools from approaches such as cognitive behavioural ideas and acceptance and commitment strategies are used alongside emotion-focused listening. People meet her to talk through relationship patterns, family tensions, attachment worries, or to manage stress and burnout. She also works with concerns like body image, ADHD, chronic illness impacts and coping after disasters.
Work may involve building routines, improving communication or practising self-compassion. Sessions are offered in English and Urdu. Aamirah accepts international clients and uses flexible online formats to fit different schedules.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then books a time that suits them.
Aamirah lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Aamirah works with
The areas below are the ones Aamirah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- 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
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Urdu |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches and online support that fit your life
Aamirah uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to guide online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps that matter to them. It is often useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect current connections and communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that suit your needs and preferences. You and the therapist decide together whether to focus on practical skills, emotional processing or a mix of both as sessions progress.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home while phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching and people who prefer typing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare or travel, and to continue support when circumstances change.
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