- Years in practice
- 9
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Sunah
Sunah Akhtar is a counsellor who aims to help people find clearer thinking and steadier emotions. She brings nine years of experience and uses a calm, person-centred style to make talking about difficult things easier. Sunah offers sessions in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu to meet different needs.
Sunah draws on a range of practical approaches, including cognitive behavioural methods and acceptance-based techniques. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward - she listens, reflects, and works with each person to build manageable steps forward. Her background includes a four-year placement at WeStand and Renaissance Horizon where she provided emotional support and one-to-one counselling. She also has experience providing therapy through an online service.
These roles shaped her interest in resilience and practical coping strategies. Sunah is a BACP member, which indicates her professional standing with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She practises from a therapy centre in Clapham while offering remote sessions for people who prefer online work.
Sessions usually combine talking, breath and grounding exercises, and simple behavioural changes. Sunah aims to tailor each plan to what a person needs right now, whether that means short-term coping skills or longer-term personal development. Outside of therapy, she has an interest in social entrepreneurship and how people adapt to change.
That interest informs a hopeful, pragmatic stance in her practice.
What Sunah works with
Everything Sunah lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Sunah helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- 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
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sunah lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Sunah’s approaches translate online
Sunah uses cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment ideas to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build useful daily habits. CBT looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises for anxiety, low mood and sleep difficulties. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and small, values-based steps to reduce struggle with difficult feelings and boost motivation.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sunah will discuss goals and preferences in the first sessions and suggest techniques that match what a person wants to achieve. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions offer flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit a shorter break, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging can keep progress on track between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on practical steps and emotional regulation.
Questions people ask about Sunah
What concerns does Sunah help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting questions, and a wide range of other emotional challenges listed in her profile.
What is her general therapeutic style?
She uses a person-centred, empathic approach combined with evidence-informed methods to create practical steps for change.
What kind of professional experience does she have?
Sunah has nine years of experience, including a four-year placement at WeStand and Renaissance Horizon and work providing online therapy.
How is she credentialed and where does she practise?
She is a BACP member and carries out sessions from a therapy centre in Clapham in the United Kingdom, while also offering remote appointments.
Which languages can sessions be held in?
Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, and she can work with clients internationally.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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