Layla Kareem , BACP

Layla Kareem is a BACP counsellor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. She also supports those facing grief, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and career or life changes. Layla offers text-based sessions and adapts her approach to each person's needs.

She keeps sessions straightforward and calm. Layla uses client-centred listening so clients feel heard. She also draws on attachment ideas to look at relationship patterns and on CBT to tackle unhelpful thinking and behaviour.

Layla aims to make starting therapy less daunting. She invites people to say what they want from counselling and works around those goals. The initial conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on small, practical steps forward.

In sessions she pays attention to emotion and personal meaning, with some existential ideas about values and purpose. She can help with intimacy-related worries, sleep problems, addiction concerns and family of origin issues. Text work suits people who prefer not to use video or phone contact.

Layla trained and practises in the United Kingdom and has six years of experience. Her membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy is listed as BACP. She welcomes people who want a compassionate, flexible way to talk through difficult feelings and life transitions.

Therapeutic approaches for online counselling

Layla uses client-centred therapy to prioritise the person's experience and perspective, offering a listening stance that helps people feel understood and make choices about change. Attachment-based ideas are used to explore recurring relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current connections, useful for intimacy and communication problems. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, offers practical techniques to spot and change upsetting thoughts and behaviours, which can help with anxiety, sleep and mood issues.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Layla will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that suit those aims. That collaborative process may include mixing approaches as needs evolve over time.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is helpful when visual cues matter, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins and text messaging works for people who prefer not to use voice or video. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caring duties and daily life.