Khafayah Abdulsalam, BACP, NCPS

Khafayah Abdulsalam helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship pain, low self-worth and addiction. She is named in the first paragraph to make it easy to find who is offering support. She offers services in English and Yoruba and works with adults who bring complex emotional and cultural concerns.

She is an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and an Accredited Registrant of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society. Khafayah is also a member of the Muslim Counsellors and Psychotherapists Network and trained in Islamic counselling approaches. These credentials inform her practice and professional standards.

Her style is calm and trauma-informed. Sessions are tailored to each person rather than applying one fixed method. She draws from person-centred counselling and cognitive behavioural techniques, and uses emotionally focused methods and acceptance and commitment ideas when they suit the work.

For people who want faith integrated into therapy, she can include Qur'anic reflections, du'a, the Names of Allah and spiritually framed discussion when requested. She combines reflective journaling and emotional regulation skills with talk-based therapy to make change practical and gradual.

Khafayah offers remote sessions by video, phone or messaging. She engages in regular clinical supervision and frames therapy as a collaborative process aimed at rebuilding strengths and clearer choices. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

Therapeutic approaches for online healing

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and take actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and getting unstuck from patterns that cause suffering.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current behaviour and feelings. It helps when trust, closeness or patterns of avoidance and clinginess affect relationships and self-worth.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and goals and then choose or combine approaches that feel like the best fit. This is done together, so methods can be adjusted as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical options: video calls for full conversation and visual connection, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited or a camera-free check-in is preferred, and live chat or text messaging for brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and let people try different ways of getting help without extra travel.