Shazia Datoobhoy
Compassionate therapist for trauma and life change
About Shazia
Shazia Datoobhoy helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addictions and self-esteem concerns. She also supports clients facing family problems, eating and body image struggles, anger and control issues, and people dealing with major life changes. Shazia works in English and Hindi and practises from the United Kingdom.
She holds BACP accreditation and has four years of clinical experience. Her style is warm and curious.
Background and approach
She listens first and asks questions that help clients notice patterns in their feelings and behaviours. Sessions are aimed at making sense of what has happened and finding small, practical ways to feel steadier day to day. Shazia uses a mix of approaches to suit each person.
She draws on client-centred ways of working to follow what matters most to the client. She also uses narrative ideas to help people reframe painful stories and trauma-focused techniques when past events keep causing distress. In practice she helps people look at attachment and abandonment issues, codependency and communication difficulties.
She works with eating and food-related issues, dissociation, and the emotional aftermath of domestic violence and separation. First responder issues are included among her focus areas. Sessions aim to increase self-understanding and strengthen coping skills.
Shazia supports clients to make changes at a pace that feels manageable. Her approach encourages self-reflection, practical action and clearer choices about how to respond in difficult situations.
What Shazia works with
How Shazia works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Shazia combines client-centred work with trauma-focused methods to help people make sense of painful experiences and rebuild a steadier daily life. Client-centred therapy involves listening carefully to what matters most to the person and shaping sessions around their priorities; it suits issues where someone needs space to be heard and understood. Trauma-focused therapy looks directly at the impact of past events and supports people to reduce the ongoing symptoms that follow trauma, such as intrusive memories or strong emotional reactions.She also uses narrative therapy to help people revisit and reframe their life stories. This approach can be useful when negative self-beliefs or repeating patterns make it hard to move forward, as it encourages new ways of seeing personal history and choice. Choosing the best mix of approaches is a collaborative process - the therapist will work with the client to decide what feels most helpful based on needs, goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging lets people check in between sessions or fit brief therapy into a busy day. These formats make it possible to maintain continuity of care, balance therapy with other commitments, and access a therapist from different locations.
| 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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Hindi
