Dr Nazee AkbariCounsellor and PsychotherapistDPsych, MA, PGDip, MBACP
About Me
Bilingual Counsellor and Psychotherapist in English and Farsi
I am a registered counsellor and psychotherapist specialising in Cognitive Behaviour and Cross-Cultural Therapy. I obtained my Postgraduate Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling in 2002 followed by a Master’s Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of East London. I completed my Doctorate in Psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute in collaboration with Middlesex University in London. With over 20 years of experience in providing mental health support to individuals, my approach in therapy is integrative, drawing on humanistic, existential, psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioural models. read more......
Counselling & Psychotherapy
Face-to-face counselling and psychotherapy provides you with a confidential opportunity to explore your thoughts and feelings in a safe, secure environment. Counsellors / psychotherapists are non-judgemental and are trained to detect self-defeating behaviours and other patterns of behaviour that can cause inner conflict, negative thought patterns and beliefs. Their role is to help you look for and...
Online counselling is particularly useful if you live further away, work abroad or travel frequently and have difficulty accessing my office in London. Online counselling via Facetime or Skype can be beneficial, done at a time and place that suits you, even from the comfort of your own home. whilst using the internet as a mode of communication may have seemed somewhat unconventional a few years ag...
Areas of expertise
Anxiety
Sometimes the pressure we are under can become overwhelming and difficult to cope with. Anxiety can manifest itself in a variety of ways leaving us feeling scared and unable to cope. Past experien...
Stress
Sometimes the pressure we are under can become overwhelming and difficult to cope with. Stress and anxiety can manifest itself in a variety of ways leaving us feeling scared and unable to cope. Past e...
Anger Management
Anger is within us all. We all feel anger – it is a basic emotion but when it is explosive, sustained or suppressed it causes us problems in our daily lives. By uncovering and dealing with the cause...
Depression
As many as one in five of us experiences depression at some point during our lifetime. At any one time, 10 per cent of us are depressed, according to the Mental Health Foundation. Not everyone seeks...
PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur after any traumatic event. A traumatic event can be defined as an event where we can see that we are in danger, or where we ...
Low confidence & self-esteem
Sometimes life events erode our self-esteem which in turn shakes our confidence and colours how we see and approach life. By exploring our self-esteem issues and rethinking negative thought patterns w...
Bereavement, Grief & Loss
Bereavement is the feeling of grief when we lose someone, or something, close to us. Death and loss are an inevitable part of life; shock, numbness, anger and sadness form part of the natural grievng ...
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a very common anxiety disorder that is characterised by the presence of obsessions and compulsions that are felt to be unreasonable and that impair daily functi...
Phobia
A phobia is an anxiety disorder. It is characterised by an extreme or irrational fear of an animal, object, place or situation and is very common. In the UK alone, an estimated 10 million people have ...
Testimonials
“We are constantly touching and changing each other’s lives simply by existing and that wave of change keeps on going through time and space and generations. That is called rippling effect!”- Irvin Yalom -
Contact Me
Contact information
+44 7957281733
therapy@dr-akbari.com
dr.nazeeakbari@yahoo.com
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