Sunah Akhtar, BACP
9 years in practice
Sunah Akhtar is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and life changes.
License and registration
- BACP
- 400423 · expires October 2026
- Years in practice
- 9
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Sunah
Sunah Akhtar is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and life changes. She works in straightforward ways that aim to make thinking and feelings easier to handle. Sunah speaks English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu and sees people based in the United Kingdom as well as international clients.
Sunah uses a mix of practical approaches drawn from existential thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas, and cognitive behavioural techniques.
Background and approach
Sessions are person-centred and direct, with an emphasis on understanding what matters to each person and testing small changes between meetings. She draws on nine years of practice to shape each plan around a person’s day-to-day life. Her background includes a long placement supporting people through emotional crises and life transitions.
That work involved listening, safety planning and helping people find steady routines when life felt overwhelming. Sunah also has experience offering therapy online and by phone, which helped her learn how to guide people when they cannot attend in person. Common topics she addresses include relationships, grief, trauma and abuse, low self‑esteem, parenting stresses, addiction and coping with chronic conditions.
She also supports people dealing with intimacy issues, body image and workplace strain. Sessions tend to mix reflection with practical exercises to try out between appointments. Sunah is a BACP member, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Her way of working aims to be warm, curious and goal-focused while keeping the person’s values at the centre of the work.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sunah lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sunah names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How different approaches work online and by phone
Existential therapy helps people look at the bigger questions that matter to them, such as meaning, choice and responsibility, and it can be useful when life changes feel unsettling or empty. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then taking actions that match a person’s values, which can help with anxiety, low mood and chronic stress. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns from early relationships and how they affect current connections, which is helpful for relationship and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those aims. It is a collaborative process where techniques are adjusted if something does not feel useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives or those living some distance from the therapist. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging suit shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caring duties or travel while keeping continuity of care.
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Questions people ask
What issues does this counsellor help with?
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship difficulties, plus topics such as grief, addiction, body image and parenting stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is person-centred and practical. She blends existential thinking with ACT and CBT tools to help people clarify values and try small changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has nine years of experience working in counselling and psychotherapy settings, including placements supporting people through crises and life transitions.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a BACP member, which stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.
Which session formats are offered?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging as ways to work together.
How are sessions charged?
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