I understand the weight you carry because I've seen what happens when it goes unwitnessed.
Hi, I'm Nawal, a trauma-informed counsellor and psychotherapist working with Muslim women who are ready to understand themselves more deeply.
My path to this work wasn't straightforward. Before private practice, I worked on acute mental health wards, in schools, and with care leavers; sitting with families in some of the most difficult moments of their lives. What I witnessed again and again was the same thread: the weight of early relational experience, unprocessed and unnamed, shaping everything that came after.
That thread is what brought me into child and adolescent therapy. And it is what brings me, now, to working with adult women because developmental trauma doesn't end in childhood. It lives in the body, in relationships, in the way we speak to ourselves when no one else is listening.
I became a therapist because I believe that understanding where we came from is the most powerful thing we can do for where we're going.
CLINICAL BACKGROUND
A career built across the full spectrum of human experience
My clinical background spans some of the most complex and under-resourced settings in mental health and social care:
→ Acute mental health wards witnessing first-hand how family history and relational trauma shape outcomes for people in crisis
→ Schools supporting children navigating developmental challenges, learning difficulties, and family breakdown
→ Care leavers services working with young people carrying the profound impact of early attachment disruption
→ Child and adolescent counselling developing deep expertise in developmental trauma, family systems, and the long reach of early experience into adult life
This breadth of experience means I bring a genuine, grounded understanding of how the earliest chapters of our lives continue to write themselves into our present and how, with the right support, they can be rewritten.
IDENTITY & CONNECTION
A space where you don't have to explain yourself
As a Muslim woman, I understand something of the particular complexity you may be navigating the tension between who you are expected to be and who you truly are. The quiet exhaustion of holding faith, family, culture, and your own inner life simultaneously.
I built this practice because I wanted to create the kind of space I wished had existed one where a Muslim woman can arrive fully, without having to translate her experience, justify her faith, or make herself smaller to be understood.
Training & Professional Registration
→ Qualified Counsellor & Psychotherapist
→ Specialist training in Child & Adolescent Counselling
→ BACP Registered (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy)
→ MCNP Member
You don't need to have it all figured out before you reach out. You just need to be curious about what's possible.
If something here resonates I would love to hear from you. A free 30-minute consultation is the first step.