About Shirin
Shirin Latif is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage intense worries, difficult relationships, and life changes. She works with individuals facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression and problems with self‑esteem. She also supports people dealing with trauma, addictions, sleep and eating concerns, and issues connected to intimacy and identity.
Shirin holds BACP accreditation from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Shirin uses straightforward, conversational methods in her sessions.
Background and approach
She aims to slow things down so clients can describe what is happening and feel heard. Her style is gentle and practical, emphasising how attachment patterns and past experiences shape current reactions. She pays attention to the patterns that keep problems repeating and looks for small, manageable steps forward.
Sessions combine talking with focused reflective work. Mindfulness techniques help clients notice unhelpful habits in the moment. Psychodynamic ideas are used to consider how early relationships influence present feelings and choices.
Solution‑focused moments are included to set clear, achievable goals between sessions. Shirin has four years of counselling experience in the United Kingdom. She supports people from a range of backgrounds and accepts international clients.
Sessions may be arranged by video call, phone, live chat, or text‑based messaging, allowing flexibility for different needs and schedules. People often come for help with specific concerns such as ADHD, attachment difficulties, chronic health stress, caregiving strain, and relationship communication. Shirin aims to create a steady space for honest conversation and practical next steps.
Approaches that guide online therapy and practical care
Attachment‑based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how they instinctively protect themselves and how that affects close connections. Client‑centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping people find their own solutions; it is useful when someone needs space to be heard and understood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple paying‑attention skills to manage anxiety, regulate mood, and reduce reactivity in stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and life circumstances and then choose methods together. This collaborative attitude means the work can change as needs evolve and different techniques are tried over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you use facial cues and more natural conversation, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text‑based messaging suit short check‑ins, reflective writing between sessions, or people who prefer not to speak on camera. These options make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life and to continue work when travel or scheduling is an issue.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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