Wajda Tabassum, BACP

BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) registered counsellor, member MBACP, with four years' experience. Wajda Tabassum works with adults on stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, intimacy and self-esteem among other issues. She offers sessions described as co-created therapeutic spaces and provides remote sessions from her base in Uxbridge, West London.

Wajda trained with a Foundation Degree in Humanistic Counselling from Middlesex University and holds a BA (Hons) in Psychology plus a range of certificates. These include a Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling, a Level 5 Certificate in Counselling Children and Young People, and training in clinical assessment with a trauma-informed approach. She also has a Master’s in Human Resource Management and additional accredited qualifications in therapeutic art and education.

Her stated practice draws on humanistic and person-centred ways of working alongside transactional approaches. She lists specific methods she may use such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, existential and client-centred approaches, and brief or creative therapies depending on need.

Sessions are described as collaborative, with an emphasis on authenticity, integrity and respect. Wajda says she adapts sessions and any treatment plan to the issues the client brings and to their personal goals.

She notes experience addressing a wide range of concerns including eating and sleeping problems, parenting strains, compassion fatigue, attachment difficulties, chronic illness and dissociation. International clients can be supported and sessions are offered in English.

How therapeutic approaches are used in remote counselling