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Amal Saddawi, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 15 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English, Arabic
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseSelf esteemDepression
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Amal Saddawi helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks English and Arabic and brings 15 years of practice in the United Kingdom. Her approach aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for day-to-day life.
She listens with respect and sensitivity. Conversations are shaped around each person's needs and goals, not a one-size-fits-all plan. Amal focuses on practical steps that can reduce distress and build confidence over time.
Background and approach
Her work covers communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, and challenges linked to addiction. She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, hoarding, immigration issues, loneliness, jealousy, and questions about life purpose. Mood disorders, multicultural concerns, narcissism, and obsessive-compulsive patterns are part of her experience.
Amal draws on methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and Client-Centred Therapy. These approaches are used to help people manage difficult feelings, change unhelpful patterns, and process painful memories. Sessions can be arranged in different formats to suit practical needs.
Amal will work with each person to shape a plan that fits their life and priorities. She aims to support and empower people as they take steps towards change.
Practical therapy approaches for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and finding direction when life feels stuck. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with depression, anxiety, and obsessive or compulsive habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then try methods that match those needs. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine. Video is good for a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits short check-ins or those who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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