Sherin Begum, BACP

Sherin Begum is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with nine years of professional experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She focuses on helping people who are feeling stressed, anxious, low in confidence, or struggling with changes in their life. Sherin emphasises a respectful, non-judgemental approach and sees the person as the expert in their own story.

She often works with people dealing with family difficulties, relationship tensions and issues around self-esteem. Other areas Sherin supports include depression, coping with illness such as cancer, caregiver stress, and practical problems like communication and control issues. She also offers help with specific concerns such as fertility, fatherhood issues, blended family challenges, and feelings of emptiness.

Sherin uses a mixture of counselling styles to suit each person. She draws on client-centred work to follow what feels most important to the person in the moment. She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to look at thoughts and behaviours, and solution-focused techniques to identify small, manageable steps forward.

Her sessions aim to be straightforward and practical. Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on building strengths and clearer choices. Sherin encourages honest dialogue about hopes and fears and helps people try out new ways of responding to difficult situations.

She works in English and provides sessions online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled according to therapist availability.

How Sherin's approaches work online

Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens closely, mirrors what matters and supports the client to find their own answers. This approach is useful when someone needs empathetic space to make sense of feelings and to increase confidence.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. In sessions clients learn to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try out small behaviour changes to reduce anxiety or low mood. CBT is practical and can help with stress, anxiety and mood difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Sherin works collaboratively to decide whether client-centred listening, CBT techniques or brief solution-focused steps suit the person best. Goals, preferences and life circumstances guide how sessions are shaped together.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow a full face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people reflect in writing and fit therapy around a busy schedule. These options make it easier to maintain regular contact and to try out techniques between sessions with ongoing support from the therapist.