Sunah Akhtar
Practical, person-centred therapy for everyday struggles
About Sunah
Sunah Akhtar is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety and major life changes. She offers calm, straightforward support and practical steps to make day-to-day life feel more manageable. Sunah uses simple, understandable language so people can talk about what matters most to them.
Sunah trained and practices with a focus on evidence-based approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. She brings a person-centred attitude to sessions, so conversations steer at the client's goals rather than fitting them to a rigid method.
Background and approach
That means work can include skills for managing mood, attention to relationship patterns, or finding clearer values to guide decisions. Her background includes nearly a decade of experience working in community and online settings. During a four-year placement she provided emotional support and practical guidance to people facing a range of challenges.
She also has experience offering therapy through online services, which has informed how she adapts methods to remote formats. Sunah is a BACP member which reflects her professional standing in the United Kingdom. She speaks English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, so she can support clients in those languages.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. People who choose to work with Sunah can expect a warm, non-judgmental space and clear tools to cope with problems such as grief, relationship difficulty, addiction concerns, sleep or eating issues, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
She aims to help clients move from feeling stuck to having practical ways forward. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the booking process available through the service.
What Sunah works with
How Sunah works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Sunah uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns. CBT is practical and problem-focused, often useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep or eating difficulties.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy which helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values. ACT can be helpful for coping with chronic stress, low motivation or ongoing worries that get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sunah treats therapy as a collaborative process and will discuss which methods fit a person's needs, goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time based on how someone responds.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual connection when helpful, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can suit brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for ongoing support between sessions or for people who prefer writing to talking.
These options allow people to work with a therapist from different locations and to choose the format that best fits their schedule, communication style and day-to-day demands.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- 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
- 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
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
