Khafayah Abdulsalam

• Stress and anxiety
• Attachment issues
• Islamic counselling option

About Khafayah

Khafayah Abdulsalam helps people with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions and parenting concerns using an integrative, trauma-informed approach. She is an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and an Accredited Registrant of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). She has five years' experience in counselling and psychotherapy and offers sessions in English and Yoruba.

Khafayah combines person-centred listening with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and emotionally focused techniques. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and attachment-based ideas when these suit the client's goals. Practical tools include reflective journaling and emotional regulation exercises.

She offers an option to include Islamic counselling principles when a client requests this. That may involve Qur'anic reflections, du'a, or working with the Names of Allah as part of a spiritually grounded way to make sense of feelings and values.

Khafayah has supported people coping with cultural or religious identity concerns, spiritual confusion, low self-worth, shame and family-of-origin issues. She also works with relationship problems such as commitment and communication difficulties, and with the effects of domestic and spiritual abuse.

Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and international clients are accepted. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a first session after selecting the Talk to a counsellor online button.

How Khafayah uses evidence-informed approaches in remote sessions

Khafayah commonly uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and practising different ways of responding, which can help with anxiety, low mood and some compulsive behaviours. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand and change how they connect with others and manage intimacy-related issues.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Khafayah discusses your goals, preferences and life context and then suggests methods that fit. She makes these decisions collaboratively so the plan can be adjusted as things change.

The biography indicates she offers remote sessions via video, phone or messaging, but readers should confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins by phone when time is limited, or avoid travel on difficult days. Registered or accredited professionals can use these formats to deliver the same therapeutic tools they would in person, such as CBT exercises, journaling prompts and emotionally focused conversation.

Topics Khafayah lists

• Stress and anxiety
• Relationship issues
• Trauma and abuse
• Grief
• Depression
• Addictions
• Family conflicts
• Intimacy-related issues
• Eating disorders
• Parenting issues
• Anger management
• Self-esteem
• Career difficulties
• Bipolar disorder
• Coping with life changes
• Coaching
• Compassion fatigue
• Abandonment
• Attachment issues
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Avoidant personality
• Blended family issues
• Codependency
• Commitment issues
• Communication problems
• Control issues
• Divorce and separation
• Domestic violence
• Drug and alcohol addiction
• Emptiness
• Family of origin issues
• Family problems
• Forgiveness
• Guilt and shame
• Hospice and end-of-life counselling
• Isolation and loneliness
• Life purpose
• Midlife crisis
• Multicultural concerns
• Narcissism
• Panic disorder and panic attacks
• Post-traumatic stress
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Self-love
• Sexual assault and abuse
• Women's issues
• Workplace issues

Ways of working

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Client-Centred Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Gottman Method
• Mindfulness Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Trauma-Focused Therapy
• Internal Family Systems

Questions about Khafayah

Does she work with anxiety?

Yes. Khafayah supports people with anxiety and stress using CBT, ACT and emotion regulation tools.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She offers an integrative, trauma-informed approach that draws on client-centred counselling, CBT, ACT and emotionally focused techniques.

How much experience does she have?

She has five years' experience in counselling and psychotherapy.

Is she registered with any professional bodies in the UK?

Yes. She is an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and an Accredited Registrant of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS).

Can I have sessions in languages other than English?

Sessions are offered in English and Yoruba.

What session formats does she offer?

The original biography states she provides remote therapy via video, phone or messaging; confirm the current session options before booking.

How much do sessions cost?

Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I start counselling with her?

Select the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.