Shazia Datoobhoy

Shazia Datoobhoy offers help for people struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain and loneliness. She also supports those facing trauma and abuse, eating and intimacy-related difficulties, self-esteem and anger. Shazia writes simply and calmly, and she aims to make therapy feel understandable and manageable.

She uses a conversational, reflective style. Sessions focus on understanding how a person's past shapes their present responses. She asks questions that encourage reflection and helps people notice patterns in thoughts, feelings and behaviour. The aim is to find small, realistic changes that feel doable in daily life.

Her approach draws on client-centred work and narrative ideas to help people tell and reframe their life stories. She also brings psychodynamic and trauma-focused ways of thinking for people affected by complex or repeated harm. Internal Family Systems ideas may be used to look at the different parts of a person's experience.

Shazia has four years of clinical experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers sessions in English and Hindi and works with people across a range of concerns including addictions, attachment difficulties, family problems and issues around control and dissociation.

To start, readers are asked to select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling. She works with international clients, and session costs vary by location and are arranged through a cancellable subscription model.

Approaches that shape online counselling

Shazia uses client-centred work to keep the focus on what matters most to the person. This approach means the therapist listens closely and helps the client lead the conversation about goals and needs. Narrative therapy is also part of her practice and helps people retell difficult experiences in ways that reduce their hold on daily life. Psychodynamic and trauma-focused ideas are drawn on when past events keep affecting current reactions and relationships.

Finding the right approach is usually a joint process. She will work with each person to decide which ways of working feel most helpful. That choice is based on the client’s goals, history and what they feel comfortable trying in sessions.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm available formats when you match and schedule. Many people find online counselling easier to fit around work and family commitments, and it can make regular check-ins simpler to arrange. Online work also makes it possible to continue therapy when travel or location would otherwise interrupt care. The therapist will discuss how to structure sessions so they suit everyday life and personal routines.