Services
Anxiety & Depression —
Anxiety & Depression —
Therapy & Coaching London
Understanding anxiety and depression at their roots, and building practical tools to manage and reduce them day to day.
Understanding anxiety and depression at their roots, and building practical tools to manage and reduce them day to day.
Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people seek support and one of the most misunderstood. Anxiety is your body's way to signal danger. We will work together on understanding it and working with it. It is not simply worry. It is not weakness. And it is not something you can think your way out of by deciding to be less anxious.
Anxiety is a response, often a very intelligent one, to something the nervous system has learned to treat as dangerous. Understanding what that is, and how it has been wired in, is the beginning of genuinely changing it.
Anxiety presents differently in different people. For some it is a constant background hum of tension and dread. For others it arrives in sudden, overwhelming waves. It can look like overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, difficulty making decisions, physical symptoms, insomnia, or a persistent sense that something bad is about to happen.
It often co-exists with depression, addiction or compulsive behaviours. These are frequently a form of self-medication for unaddressed anxiety.
I work with anxiety at both levels: the psychological patterns and beliefs that maintain it, and the practical, day-to-day skills that help manage and reduce it. I use CBT to identify and challenge thinking patterns that feed anxiety, DBT for emotional regulation and distress tolerance, and Psychodynamic work to understand where the anxiety comes from and what it is really about.
Online, by phone, or face-to-face in London and internationally. English and Arabic.
Depression has a way of making everything feel both heavy and distant at the same time. The things that used to matter don't seem to. The energy to change anything feels out of reach. And the internal voice that says nothing will help. That is perhaps the most insidious part of it.
If any of that sounds familiar, I want to say something clearly: it does get better. And it gets better faster, and more lastingly, with the right kind of support.
Depression is not simply sadness, and it is not a character flaw. It is a complex state, often with roots in early experience, in unresolved loss or grief, in chronic stress, or in patterns of relating to oneself that have quietly become unsustainable.
Depression rarely lives in isolation. It frequently sits alongside anxiety, addiction, grief, or shame.
I offer a warm, steady, consistent presence — because for someone in depression, that consistency is itself therapeutic. I work psychodynamically to explore what is beneath the low mood; I use CBT to address thinking patterns that deepen it; and I bring a coaching dimension that helps clients begin to rebuild structure, meaning, and momentum, in small, manageable steps.
The goal is not just to feel less bad. It is to build a life that feels genuinely worth living.