About Yunus
Yunus Mohamed is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 21 years of experience. He helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain and trauma. He also supports clients facing issues such as addiction, grief, parenting strain and self-esteem concerns.
Yunus trained with a BSc (Hons) in Professional Counselling from the University of Salford and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP.
How Yunus works
He has worked in community mental health and founded a counselling service in Bolton in 2007. His style draws on client-centred principles that emphasise empathy, acceptance and honesty. Sessions aim to give people space to talk, think and make decisions that fit their lives.
He also uses cognitive and solution-focused techniques to tackle specific problems and build practical coping steps. Yunus has experience supporting people through family conflict, adoption and foster care concerns, separation and domestic violence matters. He can also help when issues involve dissociation, personality-related patterns or disruptive mood concerns.
He offers counselling in English and in Gujarati, Hindi and Urdu for people who prefer those languages. International clients are accepted and sessions are offered in several online formats, so people can choose what fits their schedules and needs.
Yunus lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Yunus works with
The areas below are the ones Yunus selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English, Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches and online counselling that fit your life
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening with empathy and acceptance so people can explore what matters to them and decide what to change. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, non-judgemental space to think through feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behaviour and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety, lift mood or change unhelpful habits. It suits people who want structured tools and clear steps to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest methods that suit their situation. That choice is made side by side, and techniques can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for a more face-to-face feel, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging supports shorter daily reflections. These options help people fit counselling around work, family and travel, and make it easier to continue when life gets busy.
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