About Noreen
Noreen Akhtar supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, anger, coping with life changes and compassion fatigue. Her approach is calm and direct, and she focuses on helping people find practical ways to feel steadier day to day.
Noreen keeps sessions simple and person-centred. She creates space for people to share what matters most without judgment.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to make feelings easier to understand and manageable. Clients can expect a blend of talking work and practical steps to try between sessions. With seven years of experience, Noreen draws on a mix of evidence-informed methods.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and live by them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to spot thinking patterns that keep problems going. Attachment-based ideas help where past relationships affect current trust and closeness.
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and is listed with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, NCPS. Noreen works with people across the United Kingdom and accepts international clients who prefer online formats. Sessions are offered in English and can take place by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging.
The service uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time and fees vary by location and therapist availability. To begin, use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire.
Approaches that suit online therapy sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. It focuses on identifying what really matters and taking small actions that match those values, which can help with anxiety, grief and ongoing stress.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It teaches practical tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and test new ways of acting, useful for anxiety, low mood and many phobias.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Noreen will work with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean blending ACT and CBT with attachment-based ideas so therapy matches the problem and the person.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give choice and flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or messaging can be a brief check-in or ongoing written dialogue for people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and let people access support from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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