About Noreen
Noreen Akhtar helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, family problems, anger and major life changes. Her work includes compassion fatigue and a wide range of related concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness, fertility and bereavement.
Noreen works in English and accepts international clients from the United Kingdom. Noreen keeps sessions straightforward and down to earth.
How Noreen works
She aims to make the room feel non-judgemental so people can say what matters to them. Early sessions focus on what is most pressing and on small, doable steps to feel better. She encourages practical skills alongside exploring the story behind the problem.
Her approach draws on a mix of talking therapies chosen to match each person. Techniques can include helping a person notice unhelpful thoughts, learn coping skills for strong emotions, and build values-based goals for daily life. Attachment ideas may be used when past relationships shape present struggles.
With seven years of experience, Noreen combines structured methods with a warm, listening style. She explains options and works together with people to find what helps. Sessions can be shorter or more in-depth depending on the issue and the person’s needs.
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and NCPS. Practical next steps are simple: complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions to suit timing and location.
Noreen 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
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Noreen works with
The areas below are the ones Noreen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapy approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them decide their actions. It focuses on small steps that match what matters most to a person and can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It can help when past abandonment, family of origin issues or attachment worries affect how someone relates now, by gently examining those patterns and building new ways of connecting with self and others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Noreen will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they choose techniques that suit the issue and the individual. This collaborative process means methods can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is good for a full conversation and visual rapport. Phone can fit into a short break and uses less data. Chat or messaging works for brief check-ins or when people prefer writing things down. These options make it easier to plan regular work around busy lives and differing energy levels.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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