Roda Ali
Compassionate counsellor for trauma and life change
About Roda
Roda Ali supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She helps with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, addictions, grief and intimacy-related concerns. She also assists with parenting strain, anger, career changes, bipolar-related challenges and compassion fatigue.
Roda works with issues linked to attachment, codependency, communication and control problems, as well as multicultural and immigration-related stresses. Roda uses an approachable, straightforward style in sessions. She listens without judgement and helps people find small, practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make difficult feelings easier to understand and manage. The focus is on what the person wants to change and how to get there. Her practice draws on a blend of client-centred and attachment-based ways of working alongside cognitive behavioural techniques.
This mix allows exploration of personal history and current habits, with tools to try between sessions. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also used to support coping and decision-making. Roda brings eleven years of experience to her work and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She has experience supporting people affected by domestic violence, refugee and trafficking trauma, panic attacks and life transitions. Her background helps her notice patterns that keep people stuck and to suggest alternatives. Sessions are offered in English and Somali and can be delivered remotely.
People can expect calm, practical guidance and help building resilience so they can move forward with more confidence.
What Roda works with
How Roda works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions this might mean talking about past experiences that affect trust and closeness, then practising new ways of relating. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. It gives clear exercises to try between sessions for anxiety, low mood and anger. Client-centred therapy puts the person at the heart of the work, with the counsellor offering acceptance and reflection so people can find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about problems, goals and preferences and together they will decide which methods to try. That collaboration means approaches can be mixed and adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, for writing things down, or when someone prefers not to use a camera. These options make it easier to maintain regular contact and keep momentum between sessions.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Somali
