About Sunah
Sunah Akhtar is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. She speaks English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu and uses straightforward, practical approaches in sessions. Her aim is to help clients feel clearer and more able to cope with difficult moments.
She draws on nine years of experience in community and therapy settings. That background includes work supporting people through life changes, panic attacks, low mood and self-esteem issues.
Background and approach
Sunah also helps people facing trauma, grief, addiction-related worries and challenges around intimacy and identity. In sessions she blends person-centred listening with evidence-informed techniques. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused ideas guide the practical tools she offers.
Sessions tend to focus on noticing unhelpful patterns, building steady routines and trying small experiments between meetings. Clients can expect a calm, non-judgemental space to talk through current problems and set achievable goals. The counsellor aims to tailor pace and exercises to each person, helping them build clearer thinking and healthier coping skills over time.
Sunah’s wider interests in social entrepreneurship and community work inform her practical, resilience-focused approach. She supports people who want help with career pressures, parenting strains, caregiving stress, or recovering from difficult experiences. Her work emphasises compassion, realistic steps and gradual change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose values-led actions instead. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance and getting unstuck when life changes feel overwhelming.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going, then testing small changes. It is often used for anxiety, panic, low mood and sleeping or eating difficulties.
Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and closeness issues. They are helpful when people want to understand relationship strain, intimacy worries or attachment-related anxiety.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss goals, personal history and preferences, then suggest methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can shift as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls suit deeper conversational work when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for steady check-ins, homework support and people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- 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
- 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
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
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