Therapy for anxiety, relationship patterns and feeling disconnected from yourself
UKCP Full Clinical Member | Online across the UK | In person in Paddington, London W2 | £90 per 50-minute session.
You may look capable on the outside while privately feeling overwhelmed, low, burnt out, or unsure of yourself. I offer integrative psychotherapy for adults online across the UK and in person in Paddington, helping you understand the patterns beneath the surface and build greater clarity, self-trust and steadiness.
A place to slow down and make sense
Therapy gives a steady, trauma-aware space to explore what’s happening in your life and the core patterns underneath it.
Together, we can begin to understand how your experiences, relationships, and environment have formed how you feel and respond. In a typical session, you can expect space to share at your own pace, gentle exploration of your thoughts and feelings, and opportunities to notice how your body responds. Sessions often include reflection, conversation, and sometimes grounding techniques to help you stay present. This includes working with thoughts, emotions, and the body at a pace that feels manageable.
Over time, this can support you to feel more grounded, develop self-trust, and relate to yourself and others with greater clarity along with care.
Ways I can help
People come to therapy for many different reasons, and these experiences often overlap. You may be feeling anxious, emotionally exhausted, caught in painful relationship patterns, living with chronic illness or pain, or trying to make sense of questions around identity, belonging and self-trust.
You can read more about some of the areas I work with below:
Boundaries, Belonging and Self-Trust Therapy
For people who struggle to recognise or communicate their needs, feel responsible for others, or find it hard to set limits without guilt.Mixed & Multiracial Belonging Therapy
For people wanting space to explore mixed-race or multiracial identity, belonging, cultural complexity and the emotional impact of living across worlds.Narcissistic Abuse Therapy
For people recovering from emotional manipulation, chronic invalidation or relationship dynamics that have undermined self-trust.Chronic Illness & Pain Therapy
For people living with the emotional and relational impact of chronic illness, chronic pain, fatigue, grief and changing bodily needs.
If one of these feels close to what you’re experiencing, you can begin there. If your experience does not fit neatly into one category, we can still start with what feels most present.
How we work together
My approach is relational, integrative, trauma-informed and body-aware. I draw from different therapeutic traditions in response to your needs, while paying close attention to the therapeutic relationship and the pace at which the work unfolds.
Sessions are primarily conversational. We may explore what is happening in your life now, earlier experiences that continue to shape how you feel and relate, recurring patterns in relationships, the beliefs and strategies you developed to cope, and how stress or emotion is held in the body.
Where it feels useful, and with your agreement, I may also invite reflection through dreams, imagery, metaphor or creative exploration. Nothing is imposed. We work in a way that feels thoughtful, collaborative and manageable.
Trauma can shape how safe you feel, how you respond in relationships and how your body reacts to stress. You may notice yourself becoming highly alert, shutting down, disconnecting, over-explaining or working hard to anticipate what other people need.
We will not rush into painful experiences or ask you to disclose more than you can safely hold. Our work is paced with attention to your emotional and bodily responses, your boundaries and your existing resources. Being trauma-informed means approaching your experience without blame and respecting the ways you have learnt to survive.
Integrative and transpersonal psychotherapy
Integrative psychotherapy recognises that no single theory can fully explain the complexity of a person’s life. My work draws on psychodynamic, humanistic, Gestalt and transpersonal psychotherapy, alongside attachment-informed and somatic perspectives.
A transpersonal perspective makes room for questions of meaning, identity, spirituality, ancestry, imagination and purpose where these matter to you. This is never assumed or imposed. Depth and groundedness belong together.
Culture, identity and the wider world
Our inner lives do not develop separately from our families, communities, cultures or social environments. Race, culture, migration, gender, faith, class, disability, mixed heritage, and experiences of belonging or exclusion may all shape how you understand yourself and how others respond to you.
These experiences can be part of therapy when relevant, without being treated as the only explanation for what you are going through. You may want to explore identity and belonging directly, or simply know that important aspects of your experience will not need to be over-explained or defended.
My perspective is shaped by my Nigerian–Filipino heritage, my own experience of living across cultures, and my professional work with race, difference and intersectional experience.
What therapy with me is like
I offer a calm, thoughtful and engaged therapeutic relationship. I will listen carefully, but I will not remain distant or silent. I may notice patterns, ask questions, gently challenge an established way of seeing something, or invite us to pause and attend to what is happening in the moment.
The purpose is not for me to tell you who you are or what choices to make. It is to help you understand yourself more fully, recognise where greater choice may be possible, and strengthen your capacity to trust your own experience.
About Jamila
I am an integrative transpersonal psychotherapist and a UKCP Full Clinical Member. I trained at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education in London, and my clinical practice is supported by regular supervision, continuing professional development and the ethical standards of the UK Council for Psychotherapy.
Alongside my psychotherapy practice, I facilitate reflective and anti-racist learning within therapeutic and professional settings. This work deepens my attention to culture, power, difference and the complexities that can arise between people.
Sessions, fee and availability
Psychotherapy sessions are £90 for 50 minutes and usually take place weekly at a regular agreed time. Weekly work provides the continuity needed to develop the therapeutic relationship and explore deeper emotional and relational patterns.
I offer:
Online psychotherapy across the UK.
In-person psychotherapy in Paddington, London W2.
Appointments Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 7pm.
I am not currently offering reduced-fee or concessionary places.
Beginning therapy
Choosing a therapist is a personal decision. A free 15-minute introductory consultation gives us an opportunity to briefly discuss what is bringing you to therapy, what you are looking for, and whether my approach and available session times are a suitable fit.
This consultation is particularly helpful if you are considering ongoing weekly psychotherapy and are comfortable with the £90 session fee.