Layla Kareem
Thoughtful, relationship-focused counsellor
About Layla
Layla Kareem helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and major life changes. She supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and work-related strain such as career worries and compassion fatigue. Layla also works with mood concerns including depression and bipolar symptoms, and with practical struggles like sleeping problems and addiction-related issues.
Layla practises in a warm, patient way and invites people to set the pace.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of person-centred listening and attachment-informed ideas to explore how relationships shape feelings. Cognitive approaches are used when helpful to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding. Her style is conversational and reflective.
Sessions aim to be a place to talk honestly and name what is difficult. Layla offers text-based sessions, and adapts to the way each person likes to communicate. Layla holds BACP which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
She has six years of clinical experience working with adults in the United Kingdom. That background informs a calm, steady approach to emotional distress and life transitions. In practice she draws on emotionally-focussed ideas to address attachment and intimacy themes, and on existential questions when people wrestle with meaning.
Therapy can include short coaching-style work for practical goals, or deeper exploratory work about family of origin, abandonment and related issues. People who choose Layla can expect clear, simple conversation about what they want from therapy. She encourages small, manageable steps and checks in about progress so the work stays relevant and practical.
What Layla works with
How Layla works
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Sessions & fees
How these approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on the way early and current relationships affect feelings and behaviour. Online work with attachment ideas helps people notice patterns in close relationships and try new ways of connecting. Client-Centred Therapy puts the person at the centre of the work. The therapist listens without judgement, reflects what is said and follows the client's priorities to build understanding and agency. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings and actions and introduces practical tools to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns.Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most useful. That might mean trying short, goal-focused CBT exercises for specific problems, then switching to deeper attachment or existential work when themes about meaning or relationships emerge.
Online sessions can take place by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which offers flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or you prefer no camera, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the therapeutic focus consistent.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
