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Shagufta Qadir, BACP

Online sessions across the UK 7+ years in practice

Shagufta Qadir is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience.

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About Shagufta

Shagufta Qadir is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. She approaches each client as the expert in their own story and focuses on building confidence and motivation. She aims to support people who are ready to take the first step toward change and a more fulfilling life.

Shagufta helps people talk through stress and anxiety. She offers support for addictions, low self‑esteem, and relationship concerns.

Background and approach

She also works with grief, trauma, and issues around intimacy and identity. Sessions are offered in English and Urdu. Her background includes work with a wide range of life challenges such as parenting strain, career transitions, chronic health concerns, and caregiving stress.

She also pays attention to attachment difficulties, communication problems, and blended family matters. She holds BACP accreditation, which is noted as her listed credential. In sessions she listens without judgement and aims to help people notice their strengths.

She uses practical methods to set realistic goals and try small changes between meetings. Conversations are shaped by the client’s pace and priorities. People often come for help coping with big life changes, managing mood swings, or finding motivation.

Shagufta supports people facing domestic violence, separation and divorce, and long‑term health or pain issues. Her work blends empathy with clear, goal‑oriented steps to help move forward.

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BACP 326436 March 2026

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Sessions and payment

Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.

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Focus areas and approaches

What Shagufta works with

Everything Shagufta lists, in their own terms.

Approaches Shagufta lists

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Online support

Attachment‑based work looks at how early relationships shape emotions and expectations. In sessions this means noticing how past relationship patterns affect current stress and closeness, and trying different ways of relating that feel safer and more effective. Client‑centred therapy focuses on empathetic listening and the client’s own pace. It helps people find clarity, build confidence and make decisions from their own values. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. It uses practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills for anxiety, low mood and behaviour change.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals and preferences and together decide what to try first. That plan can change if something isn’t helping, and small adjustments are normal as progress is tracked collaboratively.

Online formats make sessions more flexible. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well for shorter check‑ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text‑based messaging let clients send brief updates, reflect between sessions, or fit support around work and caregiving. These options help people keep therapy consistent even with busy schedules or distance from services.

Frequently asked

What concerns does she help with?

She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, self‑esteem and relationship problems. Her practice also covers trauma, grief, intimacy issues and career or life transitions.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is non‑judgemental and collaborative. She listens for strengths and helps set small, practical goals to test new ways of coping.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has seven years of professional experience working with a variety of concerns including mood disorders, addictions and caregiving stress.

What credential does she hold and where is she based?

She lists BACP as her credential and practises in the United Kingdom.

Which languages are supported in sessions?

Sessions are offered in English and Urdu. International clients are accepted.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text‑based messaging according to the client’s preference.

How is cost handled?

Session cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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