Shirin Latif
Gentle, practical support for relationship and life strain
About Shirin
Shirin Latif offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by relationship strain, anxiety, depression, grief or life transitions. She meets people where they are and helps them talk through problems in everyday language. Sessions aim to slow things down, rebuild clarity and find small, workable steps forward.
Shirin uses a mix of approaches that centre on how people connect to others and to themselves. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at patterns of closeness and distance, and psychodynamic thinking to consider how past experiences shape present reactions.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and client-centred techniques are used to help people notice feelings and choose different responses. Her work is straightforward and compassionate. Conversations focus on what is happening now and practical ways to change unhelpful patterns.
Expect a space with no judgement and an emphasis on listening and understanding. Shirin holds BACP, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and she has four years of clinical experience. She provides sessions from the United Kingdom and accepts people internationally, offering several online formats to suit different needs.
Typical concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, bereavement, low self-esteem, addiction and relationship difficulties. She also supports people with sleep and eating problems, parenting pressures, career worries, ADHD and compassion fatigue, among other focus areas.
What Shirin works with
How Shirin works
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Sessions & fees
How Shirin’s approaches translate to online therapy
Shirin draws on attachment-based work to look at patterns of closeness and distance and how those show up in relationships. This approach helps when people feel stuck repeating the same fights or withdrawing from others.She also uses client-centred methods which focus on listening and reflecting what the person is feeling so they can make clearer choices. Mindfulness exercises are added to help people notice bodily sensations and emotions in the moment and reduce reactivity.
Deciding which approach to use is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss needs, goals and preferences and suggest a mix of ways to try. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what feels most useful for each person.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat can work for shorter check-ins and text-based messaging suits people who prefer typing. These formats make it easier to fit regular sessions around work, caregiving or travel and to keep continuity when life is busy.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- 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
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
