About Summar
Summar Ali offers calm, steady support for people facing difficult moments. She helps with everyday worries and longer-term struggles like anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, sleep problems and career stress. Her way is practical and warm, aimed at making things feel more manageable one step at a time.
Summar draws on 11 years of experience working across NHS child and adolescent services, school counselling, drug and alcohol support, bereavement services and sexual trauma work.
How Summar works
She has also lectured at the University of Southampton and the Anna Freud Centre, and she holds a BA in Counselling and Psychotherapy plus several postgraduate certificates. Her BACP registration is noted on her profile. In sessions she keeps the focus on the person in front of her.
Conversations are used to identify what matters most, break problems into smaller parts and try different ways of coping. She uses evidence-based tools alongside a gentle emphasis on connection and understanding. Summar also works with issues linked to attachment, adoption and foster care, neurodiversity including autism, and relationship patterns such as codependency and commitment worries.
She has additional experience supporting people with chronic pain, complex trauma and dissociation. Online appointments are available, and she accepts people based in the United Kingdom and internationally. Sessions can suit people looking for short-term coaching or longer-term therapy, depending on individual needs.
Summar lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Summar works with
The areas below are the ones Summar 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what really matters to them and take small, values-led steps even when feelings are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, stress, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns; it can help with depression, anxiety, sleep and problem behaviours. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current ways of relating and feeling, and it can help when attachment wounds affect intimacy and trust.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to the client’s goals, try methods that fit the person, and adjust as needed. This is a collaborative process where feedback guides what is used in sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, so people can pick what suits their routine. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can work for short check-ins or when someone prefers writing. These options make therapy more flexible for work, travel or busy family life and allow consistent support even when meeting in person is difficult.
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