Khafayah Abdulsalam

Khafayah Abdulsalam offers support for stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions and issues around family and intimacy. She also helps with parenting strains, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar mood challenges, and coping with major life changes. Khafayah makes space for concerns tied to attachment, abandonment, codependency, and communication or control problems.

She works in a calm, person-centred way that aims to meet each person where they are. Sessions draw on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), emotionally-focused ideas and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people make practical changes. She can also include faith-based reflections when clients request that option and want Islamic counselling elements woven into the work.

Khafayah is an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and an Accredited Registrant of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, NCPS. She also belongs to the Muslim Counsellors and Psychotherapists Network and follows trauma-informed practice and regular clinical supervision.

People can expect clear, simple tools in sessions such as emotional regulation strategies, reflective journaling and practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. Khafayah takes time to listen and helps clients notice what matters most to them before planning next steps.

She offers remote sessions and works with people who want therapy that can include their cultural or religious identity. Khafayah aims to support clients as they rebuild self-trust and move toward more settled, purposeful day-to-day life.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting pushed around by them and then take small committed steps toward what matters. It is often useful for anxiety, low mood and for getting unstuck when values feel unclear.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and safety with others. It can help people who struggle with trust, abandonment fears, or repeated patterns in relationships to understand and change those patterns.

Finding the right approach is usually a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try a method, and adjust the plan together based on what helps most. Clients often mix techniques from different approaches to suit their needs.

Confirm the available remote session options before booking, as formats are set by the therapist's practice. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into day-to-day life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people include faith-based reflections alongside therapy when that is important to them. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt tools such as CBT exercises, emotion regulation skills and journaling to work well in remote sessions.