Shagufta Qadir
Supportive counsellor for life changes
About Shagufta
Shagufta Qadir is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with seven years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and motivation struggles. She also helps those coping with addiction, relationship challenges and grief.
Shagufta speaks English and Urdu and draws on a range of approaches to suit different needs. She believes people know their own story and brings a respectful, listening way of working. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on building practical steps forward.
Background and approach
The therapist aims to help people notice strengths and use them to tackle difficult moments. Shagufta blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural ideas to help shift unhelpful thoughts and actions. Attachment-based thinking is used when relationship patterns and early experiences influence current feelings.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools are offered for clients who want clearer goals and short-term change. Work in sessions can include talking through difficult memories, spotting patterns that keep problems going, setting small achievable goals, and practising coping strategies. The pace is set by the person attending and shaped around their priorities.
Shagufta supports clients through life changes, career concerns, intimacy questions and longer-term mood problems. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are available online in English and Urdu for people in the UK and internationally.
What Shagufta works with
How Shagufta works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and ways of relating. In online sessions this can mean talking about patterns that repeat in partnerships or friendships and trying small changes in how a person communicates and connects. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting the person’s experience back without judgement, which helps people feel heard and make choices at their own pace. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with clearer actions and experiments; it is useful for anxiety, low mood and behaviour change.Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest ways of working that fit the person’s needs. That plan can change over time if something else seems more helpful, and practical steps are agreed together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is low, live chat can work for people who prefer typing, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Urdu
