Yasmeen Desnavi
Practical, empathetic support for everyday struggles
About Yasmeen
Yasmeen Desnavi helps people manage stress, anxiety, low mood, grief and relationship difficulties. She is a BACP counsellor with three years' experience, and she works in English and Urdu. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making conversations feel calm and practical.
Yasmeen uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical coping steps and building confidence. She listens first, then suggests small changes that can fit into daily life.
Background and approach
She has worked in hospital-based cancer support and with GP referral services, supporting people through illness and its emotional impact. That experience informs how she talks about loss, caregiving pressures and changes in identity. Outside medical settings she has supported people through relationship strain, abandoned feelings and issues around adoption and foster care.
She also helps with body image, communication problems, codependency and stress linked to caring roles. Yasmeen draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot thought patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. She uses client-centred listening to understand what matters to each person, and solution-focused steps to build momentum.
Internal Family Systems and trauma-focused ideas are used when exploring deeper events and attachment wounds. Her sessions are practical and paced to the individual. People can expect a calm conversational approach, suggestions for everyday routines, and follow-up ideas to try between sessions.
What Yasmeen works with
How Yasmeen works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding and acceptance. The therapist listens with curiosity and reflects back what matters to you, which helps people feel heard and clearer about their next steps. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact; it uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety and lift mood by changing unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Yasmeen will talk through options, try methods that match your goals, and adjust the plan as you progress. Together you decide what feels useful and what to focus on next.
Online sessions can be easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be a good alternative when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, shorter reflections or when writing helps you organise thoughts. These formats give flexibility for work breaks, travel or different energy levels while keeping therapeutic continuity.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Urdu
