About Halima
Halima Butt welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or big life changes. She speaks plainly and supports clients who are struggling with confidence, motivation, relationships and difficulties that affect daily life. Halima aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful.
Halima has three years of professional experience and holds BACP registration, which is recorded as BACP. She works with people on a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar difficulties, addictions and compassion fatigue.
How Halima works
She also helps with eating issues, intimacy-related worries, gender dysphoria and challenges that come with parenting or young adulthood. Her approach is collaborative. Sessions focus on what an individual wants to change and how to get there in practical steps.
Techniques can include looking at patterns in relationships, noticing unhelpful thoughts, and using mindfulness to reduce stress. Halima adapts the pace and tools to suit each person rather than offering a single fixed method. Halima places emphasis on clear communication and building a trusting, respectful working relationship.
She pays attention to safety concerns such as domestic violence, self-harm, and past sexual assault and abuse, and works with people to prioritise immediate needs when they arise. People can expect straightforward conversation, realistic goals and support with practical strategies such as smoking or vaping cessation and coping plans for relapse.
The aim is to help people find more balance and a clearer sense of purpose over time.
Halima lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Halima works with
The areas below are the ones Halima selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Halima's approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current reactions; online sessions can help people notice these patterns and try different ways of relating. Client-centred therapy focuses on accepting, non-judgemental conversation where the person sets the pace and the topics; this approach can be helpful for building confidence and clarifying personal goals. Cognitive behavioural techniques involve spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours to reduce anxiety and improve mood, which can be practised between sessions and adapted for remote work.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Halima will collaborate with each person to choose and adjust methods based on what they want to change, their goals and how they respond in early sessions. That means plans may be reviewed and adapted as work progresses to make sure it fits the person's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for a full conversational session and visual cues, phone sessions suit people who need lower bandwidth or prefer voice-only contact, live chat can be used for shorter focused check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and family commitments while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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