- Years in practice
- 5
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Mehbuba
Mehbuba Khalid is a counsellor who focuses on helping people with relationship strains and the challenges of parenting. She speaks English, Bengali, Hindi and Urdu, and works with individuals on issues such as trauma, grief, addiction, low self-esteem and sleep problems. Mehbuba uses a compassionate, relational style to help clients feel heard and understood.
Mehbuba draws on a range of approaches to suit each person. She often uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns.
Background and approach
She also works in a client-centred way, helping people find their own solutions through empathy and active listening. For people coping with trauma, Mehbuba includes EMDR in her work alongside talking therapies. She uses narrative techniques to help people reframe difficult stories and notice strengths they may have missed.
Practical tools for managing sleep, mood and stress are woven into sessions when helpful. She has five years of clinical experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That background informs her teaching and supervision work as well as her direct practice.
Mehbuba aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where parents and other clients can explore worries, try new coping strategies, and set realistic goals. She invites people to take small steps and notice gradual change.
What Mehbuba works with
Everything Mehbuba lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Mehbuba helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Mehbuba lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Narrative Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Using attachment, EMDR and narrative ideas online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape present relationships and emotional reactions; online sessions can help people notice patterns and practise new ways of relating. Client-centred counselling focuses on empathic listening and reflection so clients can find their own answers, which translates well to video or messaging formats. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used for trauma and involves guided processing of distressing memories alongside tracking or bilateral stimulation adapted for remote sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether attachment work, EMDR, narrative techniques or a mix feels most useful for their goals and comfort. Decisions are reviewed as work progresses so the plan can shift if needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversational time. Phone sessions can be a good low-bandwidth option or a way to fit therapy into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, journalling-style reflection or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to access therapy around work and family commitments and from different locations.
Questions people ask about Mehbuba
What kinds of concerns does Mehbuba help with?
She works with relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, depression, addiction, grief, eating difficulties, anger and self-esteem, among other concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is relational and client-centred, emphasising empathy and listening while helping people identify their own solutions and coping strategies.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
Mehbuba has five years of clinical experience and also teaches and supervises counselling practitioners, which informs her reflective approach.
What credentials and location are listed for Mehbuba?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages can sessions be held in?
Sessions are offered in English, Bengali, Hindi and Urdu and she is able to work with international clients.
What session formats are available?
Work can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on what suits the client.
How are fees and payments handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions operate through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Mehbuba?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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