Ali is a trained counsellor with a BA Hons Degree in Counselling from Roehampton University she has worked for various counselling charities as well as being a specialist mental health mentor for a local university campus.
Ali has over 3500 hours of counselling experience and is a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP)
In accordance with BACP regulations, she has regular and ongoing supervision and participates in continuing professional development.
Ali is a warm, sensitive and non-judgmental therapist, offering a safe (and confidential), comfortable and quiet space in which to share what is troubling you. I can help with a wide range of issues including anxiety, panic attacks, depression, relationship difficulties, poor self-esteem, bereavement, and trauma including sexual and physical abuse.
Ali work from home, in a Consulting Room, on the outskirts of Christchurch, Dorset. I offer mainly daytime weekday appointments, but evening appointments can be agreed at a mutually agreeable time.
Prior to training as a Counsellor, I was a Legal Secretary for over 11 years, having worked in London in a high-pressured environment for over 3 of those years. I am therefore able to draw on these experiences in understanding the challenges of the workplace, its pressures both relationally and from a workload point of view.
In addition Ali is a trained debriefer through People in Aid in the UK and crisis and trauma debriefing through Le Rucher in Geneva and is a trustee of Brook Besor Trust a residential debriefing centre.
Ali is also a chaplain for Moorlands College and a local senor church leader.