Noreen Akhtar , BACP, NCPS

Noreen Akhtar is a counsellor who focuses on womens issues and a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, family problems, anger, major life changes and compassion fatigue. Noreen works with people who are facing difficult medical, fertility or caregiving challenges as well as those coping with abandonment, adoption and attachment questions.

Noreen aims for a warm, non-judgemental space where clients can name painful thoughts and feelings. She listens with patience and helps people find small, practical steps they can take between sessions. Conversations are straightforward and focused on what the client wants to change in their life.

Her practice draws on several approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, client-centred ways of working, cognitive behavioural tools and techniques from dialectical behaviour therapy. She blends those methods to suit each persons needs rather than following one fixed model.

Noreen holds BACP and NCPS credentials and brings seven years of experience to her counselling work. She is based in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English to local and international clients.

Sessions are available as video calls, phone appointments, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules. Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and arranging a session time that works for the client.

She aims to help people feel steadier and more able to cope, one step at a time.

How her approaches work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting ruled by them and focuses on actions that reflect personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and major life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and aims to help people feel safer and more connected in how they relate to others. It is often helpful for attachment issues, abandonment concerns and family of origin problems.

Noreen treats finding the right approach as a joint task. She will discuss the main options with clients and try methods that match their goals and preferences. Over a few sessions she adapts tools and pacing based on what feels most helpful for that person.

Online work is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into everyday life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to schedule, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to give flexibility so people can attend sessions around work, caring duties or travel.