About Sadia
Sadia Khan helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and grief. She supports those dealing with depression, addictions, parenting strain, low self esteem and career worries. She also works with people facing life changes, compassion fatigue and ADHD.
Sadia speaks English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu and is based in the United Kingdom. Sadia uses a blend of practical and reflective methods. Sessions are warm and non-judgemental.
She focuses on building trust so people feel able to talk about painful topics and try out new ways of coping.
How Sadia works
Her background includes four years working with a wide range of concerns. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That registration is shown as BACP on her profile.
Sadia draws on several approaches to shape plans that fit each person. She often uses techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based work. She adapts methods to suit different cultures and life experiences.
In sessions she combines practical tools with space to reflect. That can mean learning new coping skills one week and looking at past patterns the next. The aim is to leave people better able to cope, make choices and recover some calm.
If someone prefers to speak in Hindi, Punjabi or Urdu she can do so. She accepts international clients and offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Sadia lists 12 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
What Sadia works with
The areas below are the ones Sadia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- 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
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts without being driven by them. It focuses on values and small actions that bring life closer to what matters, which can help with anxiety, depression and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It uses simple exercises and practical strategies to reduce symptoms and change unhelpful habits, which is often useful for anxiety, low mood and stress.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how past relationships shape current reactions. It helps people understand relational patterns and try new ways of relating when old responses cause pain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest a way forward. That plan can combine methods and will be adjusted as therapy progresses in collaboration with the client.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow a face-to-face feel, phone sessions can be easier when a lower bandwidth connection is needed, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging helps people work through thoughts over time. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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