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Mehreen Haroon-Ali, BACP, NCPS
- Credentials
- BACP, NCPS
- Experience
- 5 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseDepressionCoping with life changes
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Mehreen Haroon-Ali works from a Humanistic foundation and draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She focuses on practical steps people can try and places the person's own goals at the centre of work. Her style is warm, open and non-judgemental, and she encourages people to notice their strengths as they work through difficult moments.
She helps with stress and anxiety, low mood and grief, and problems with self-esteem and motivation.
Background and approach
Relationship and intimacy-related concerns are part of her focus, as are challenges around addiction, sleep and eating. She also supports people facing career strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD and life changes such as bereavement or illness. Mehreen uses a mix of methods so the work can suit different needs.
Sessions are led by the person in front of her, with practical tools from CBT and values-based work from ACT when helpful. Creative exercises may be offered but only when the person wants them. Her practice aims to help people build clearer habits and kinder self-talk.
Conversations look at what matters to the person now and what small steps might move them towards that. The focus is on realistic, doable changes rather than jargon or long lectures. Mehreen has five years of professional experience and holds BACP and NCPS credentials.
She provides sessions in English and accepts international clients, offering video, phone, chat and text-based formats to fit different schedules and needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps towards those values even when feelings are hard. It suits issues like anxiety, low mood and motivation by focusing on action rather than getting stuck in thought patterns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at connections between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for stress, panic, sleep and eating difficulties and gives straightforward tools to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and the therapist will collaborate with the person to pick what fits best. Goals, preferences and day-to-day realities guide whether more ACT, CBT or client-centred listening is used. This is a joint process with checking in and adjusting as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when visual contact helps the conversation, phone can be easier on low bandwidth days, chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, travel or family commitments and make it easier to carry on between appointments.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
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