Bushra Yassin
Compassionate, culturally aware counselling
About Bushra
Bushra Yassin helps people cope with grief, trauma and the stresses of major life changes. She supports those struggling with anxiety, depression, addiction and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. She also works with issues around self-esteem, parenting strain, sleep difficulties, anger and career stress.
Bushra communicates in English and Urdu and practises from the United Kingdom. Bushra draws on seven years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation. She adapts conversations and plans to each person's situation.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be respectful and culturally aware, with attention to how background and beliefs shape everyday life. Her approach is practical and collaborative. She uses techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy to address painful thoughts and unhelpful habits.
Attachment-based ideas are used to look at relationship patterns and intimacy concerns. Sessions also draw on client-centred and Jungian perspectives when exploring values, personal meaning and identity. Bushra helps people name what matters, notice patterns and try small, doable changes between meetings.
She balances emotional support with steps people can use in daily life. People who start with Bushra typically work on one or two priorities at a time. The pace is set by the client, and she offers a compassionate space to process difficult events and plan next steps.
The aim is clearer thinking, greater self-understanding and more confidence managing challenges.
What Bushra works with
How Bushra works
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Listed by Bushra among the ways they work.
Listed by Bushra among the ways they work.
Listed by Bushra among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them. It helps people clarify values and take small steps towards what matters, which can be useful for grief, anxiety and life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It teaches practical techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits, often useful for anxiety, depression and sleep problems.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It can help with intimacy issues, abandonment worries and communication problems by exploring how people connect with others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods and adjust them as needed so the plan fits the person's life.
Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever is convenient. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can suit a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging allow ongoing support between meetings and can fit around work or family schedules. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit into everyday life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Urdu
