About Saleem
Saleem Choudhry is a BACP counsellor who draws on somatic and relational approaches to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life. He works with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues such as addiction and grief. Sessions are practical and paced to each person.
Saleem has three years' experience providing counselling in the United Kingdom. He pays attention to how emotions show up in the body and in patterns of relating.
Background and approach
That means conversations about feelings are often paired with noticing physical responses and simple ways to manage them between sessions. Clients can expect a calm, non-judgemental space where the focus is on what matters to them now. He listens for patterns from earlier life that affect present choices, and uses that understanding to open up new options.
Work is tailored to an individual’s goals and preferences. Saleem also supports people working through identity and neurodiversity questions, including attention difference and autism, and offers help with parenting strain, career stress and burnout. He brings a practical stance to issues like sleep, eating and low self-esteem.
Therapy can include talking, bodily awareness exercises and reflections about relationship patterns. The aim is to build skills for coping and to increase a person’s sense of control in everyday situations. Sessions are available online and in formats that suit different needs, including video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging.
Saleem works in English and accepts international clients.
How somatic and relational methods work online
Saleem uses somatic therapy to help people notice how feelings appear in the body and to learn simple ways of settling physical reactions. This can help with anxiety, trauma responses and stress-related symptoms. Client-centred work means sessions focus on the person's priorities, with the counsellor following their pace and concerns. Psychodynamic ideas are used to gently link current difficulties with past patterns, helping people understand repeating cycles and make different choices.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Saleem works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person's needs, goals and preferences. He adapts techniques so they work well in online sessions and checks in regularly to make sure the way of working feels useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, which make therapy more flexible around work, family and time zones. These options allow people to continue work between sessions and to choose a way of connecting that feels most comfortable for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- 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
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English