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Sibell Ali, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 10 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefDepression
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Sibell Ali is a humanistic counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, with ten years of professional experience in the UK. She creates a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about what feels hard. Her manner is calm and compassionate and she treats each person as the expert on their own life.
Sibell uses a person-centred approach as her core method. She listens closely and reflects back what a person says so that thoughts and feelings become clearer.
Background and approach
That clarity can make difficult decisions, painful memories and ongoing worries easier to manage. She also adapts her work to fit each person’s needs and circumstances. This might mean focusing on current stress and anxiety, or making space to work through trauma, bereavement or long-term health challenges.
The aim is always to help people notice their strengths and build practical ways to cope. Sibell has experience helping people with relationship questions, family conflict, self-esteem and issues connected to gender and sexual identity. She also supports people facing grief, feelings of emptiness, dissociation, or the fallout from separation and commitment issues.
Her approach is steady and encouraging. Sessions are conversational and paced to suit the person. Sibell helps people find small changes that add up to better day-to-day coping and a clearer sense of direction.
How Sibell's approach adapts to online therapy
Sibell’s core approach is Client-Centred Therapy. This means she focuses on listening closely and reflecting what a person says so they can better understand their own feelings. It helps with anxiety, low mood, grief and relationship concerns by creating a space where thoughts become clearer.She also works integratively when needed, adapting techniques to match the person's needs. That flexibility can be useful for people coping with trauma, chronic illness, or big life changes, because the therapist and client can try different ways of working together to find what helps.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest ways of working that fit those aims. Decisions about focus and pace are made collaboratively so the work feels manageable.
Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed. Phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging give options for shorter check-ins or for people who find writing easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and everyday life.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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