Roda Ali, BACP

Roda Ali helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, grief, or relationship pain. She supports those coping with trauma, addictions, parenting strain, career pressure, and life transitions. Roda also works with concerns such as self-esteem, intimacy difficulties, anger, and compassion fatigue. She uses straightforward language and a calm, steady presence to help people find clearer ways forward.

Roda draws on more than 11 years of clinical experience. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings as well as time to talk through painful memories and current struggles.

Her approach mixes attachment-based ideas with client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural techniques. That means Roda pays attention to how relationships shape feelings, offers a non-judgemental listening style, and helps people test small changes to thought patterns and behaviours.

People can expect a collaborative pace. Roda helps identify patterns such as codependency, communication or control issues, and then works with each person to set manageable goals. She also attends to cultural and migration-related pressures and the effects of prejudice and discrimination.

Sessions are offered in English and Somali and are available to people inside and outside the UK. Roda supports short-term problem solving and longer-term work, aiming to strengthen resilience and help people make choices that feel empowering.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Roda uses attachment-based work to look at how early and current relationships shape emotions and expectations. This approach helps when people are struggling with trust, codependency, commitment worries, or difficulty feeling safe in close relationships.

She also uses client-centred methods that focus on listening without judgement and following the person’s pace. That style helps people who need time to find words for painful experiences or who benefit from a supportive, non-directive space.

Roda draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to help identify unhelpful thoughts and test small changes in behaviour. CBT-style tools can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with stressful situations.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Roda will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then adjust methods together so therapy fits each person’s needs.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video helps with visual connection and fuller conversation, phone can work well when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect before they reply. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, family, or travel and to keep continuity when life is busy.