About Yasmeen
Yasmeen Desnavi is a counsellor who supports people struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties and grief. She uses clear, practical approaches to help people manage strong feelings and take small steps toward change. Yasmeen speaks English and Urdu, which can make it easier for someone to explain what matters to them.
She trained in psychology and holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
Yasmeen has three years' clinical experience and has worked in healthcare and community settings, including with cancer support services at Manchester Royal Infirmary. That work gave her experience helping people cope with illness, loss and the ripple effects on daily life. Yasmeen takes an integrative style.
Sessions are guided by the client and shaped around their goals. She draws on client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques and solution-focused tools to create short-term plans and practical coping strategies. For trauma or deep emotional wounds she brings trauma-focused methods alongside parts-work ideas from Internal Family Systems to help someone make sense of painful experiences.
The emphasis is on gradual, manageable steps rather than quick fixes. Sessions can include problem-solving, thought work, and exercises a client can try between meetings. Yasmeen aims to build trust and offer a calm, non-judgemental space to talk and plan the next steps.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centred therapy focuses on understanding a person's experience and following their pace. It helps when someone needs a calm space to talk and feel heard, and it fits well with video or phone sessions where listening and reflection are central.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, stress and low mood and adapts easily to short exercises and worksheets shared during online meetings.
Solution-focused therapy emphasises small, achievable steps and what is already working. It often leads to concrete goals and homework that suit messaging or brief video check-ins.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and decide together with the client which methods match the person's goals and preferences. This collaborative planning means sessions can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility in format and timing. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions suit those with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and daily life while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Urdu
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