About Shagufta
Shagufta Qadir is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, low self-esteem and challenges with motivation. Shagufta works with clients in English and Urdu and approaches each person as the expert on their own life.
She believes small steps make a difference and aims to make starting therapy straightforward. Sessions are framed around the client’s goals and current needs.
How Shagufta works
Shagufta offers practical ways to build confidence and cope with difficult emotions. Her background includes work with people experiencing grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping problems, and caregiver stress. She also supports those dealing with chronic illness, career worries, bipolar disorder and anger management.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care issues, attachment challenges, blended family dynamics, and domestic violence recovery. Shagufta draws on several therapeutic approaches to guide sessions. She uses attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns, client-centred listening to help people feel heard, and cognitive behavioural tools to address unhelpful thinking.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are brought in to support change and set achievable goals. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She aims to create a space where people can talk through painful experiences, develop coping strategies and build a clearer way forward.
The emphasis is on practical steps and on drawing out the client’s own strengths.
Shagufta lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Shagufta works with
The areas below are the ones Shagufta selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English, Urdu |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In an online session this can help people notice repeated ways of relating and try different responses in safe discussions. Client-centred practice focuses on listening without judgement and reflecting what a person says. That approach helps clients feel understood and to build trust even when meeting by video or chat. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, offers tools to spot unhelpful thinking and test small behavioural changes. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems and can be practised between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan if needed, keeping the work practical and goal-focused.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for more in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow brief updates, coaching-style support or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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