About Shazia
Shazia Datoobhoy is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and loss. She works with issues such as depression, addictions, eating and intimacy-related concerns, and supports people navigating LGBT matters and family problems. Sessions are offered in English and Hindi and she is based in the United Kingdom.
Shazia uses a conversational, person-centred approach that places the client's experience first. She asks questions that invite reflection and helps people make sense of how their past affects their present.
Background and approach
The aim is to find practical, sustainable changes that improve day-to-day life and emotional responses. Her work often focuses on trauma, including PTSD, complex PTSD, childhood trauma and abuse in its many forms. She helps people talk through painful memories, notice patterns such as codependency or avoidance, and build ways of responding that feel safer and more effective.
Shazia also addresses attachment and abandonment concerns that affect relationships. Sessions can explore body image, eating and self-esteem difficulties as well as anger, dissociation and emptiness. She draws on narrative and psychodynamic ideas to help people reframe stories about themselves and understand recurring dynamics.
Internal Family Systems ideas may be used to notice different internal parts and how they relate. Shazia holds BACP registration, which appears as BACP in her credentials. She has four years of clinical experience and accepts international clients.
To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
What Shazia works with
Everything Shazia lists, in their own terms. LGBT is the reason Shazia is listed here; the rest shows what else Shazia works with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Shazia lists
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How her approaches guide online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person in front of the counsellor. It means conversations that follow the client's pace and priorities, helping people feel heard and start to make their own choices. Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people carry about themselves and their lives. It can help rewrite unhelpful narratives and open new ways of relating to problems.These approaches can be combined with trauma-focused work when past harm needs careful attention. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide what feels right. Finding the best approach is part of the early sessions, with the counsellor checking in about goals and comfort and adapting methods as needed.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. It may reduce travel time and let people schedule sessions around work or family commitments. If you need to know which session formats are offered, confirm the available options before booking so you can choose what suits you. Registered or accredited professionals can support people through these methods and help adapt sessions to individual needs without promising a particular outcome.
Questions people ask about Shazia
What concerns does Shazia help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma, and also helps with relationship issues, addictions, eating and intimacy-related concerns.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is person-centred and reflective. She asks questions that invite clients to understand patterns and try practical changes.
What experience does she have?
She has four years of clinical experience working with trauma, attachment difficulties and related concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
Her credential is BACP and she practices from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Hindi.
Can international clients work with her?
Yes, she accepts international clients.
How are fees and payments handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Shazia?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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