About Shirin
Shirin Latif is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief and relationship difficulties. She uses straightforward conversation and practical techniques to help clients make sense of what is happening in their lives. Shirin holds BACP accreditation, which is listed as her professional credential.
Shirin often explores how people protect themselves when they feel hurt. She listens for attachment patterns and recurring reactions that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Conversations may include noticing how the body responds to stress and learning small ways to reconnect with one’s physical sensations. Her sessions are client-centred and grounded in mindfulness practices to help with self-awareness. She also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning during major life changes.
This mix supports work on issues such as depression, bipolar disorder, addiction and compassion fatigue. Shirin has four years of experience and accepts clients in English, including international consultations. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, using a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
People come to her for many concerns, including trauma and abuse, self-esteem, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain and career questions. Initial steps are to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability. The process is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.
How online therapy and her approaches work together
Shirin combines somatic awareness, attachment-based ideas and a client-centred way of working to support people online. Somatic work pays attention to bodily signals like tension, breath and posture and can help with anxiety, trauma responses and stress by noticing physical reactions.Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect feeling safe and connected. It can be useful for relationship struggles, intimacy-related worries and repeated conflicts. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and the client’s own priorities so that sessions move at a person’s pace and address what matters most to them.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together decide which methods suit best. This collaborative step helps to shape what happens in sessions and how progress is measured.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as flexibility and easier access to support. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit those who prefer voice only, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit around busy days or provide a different way to reflect between sessions. These options make it simpler to work on emotional, relationship and life-change issues from wherever the client is located.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English