Counsellor profile
Shazia Datoobhoy, BACP
United Kingdom
BACP counsellor - trauma and relationships
Continue with ShaziaWhere Shazia stands
- Credentials
- BACP
- Registration
- BACP, United Kingdom / 394465
- Experience
- 4 years
- Languages
- English, Hindi
- Location
- United Kingdom
About
- Trauma-informed work
- Relationships and codependency
- English and Hindi
About Shazia
Shazia Datoobhoy is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years' experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression and codependency. Sessions are offered in English and Hindi and Shazia accepts international clients.
Shazia focuses on helping people understand how past experiences shape current feelings and reactions. She asks questions that encourage reflection and helps people notice patterns in their thinking and behaviour. The aim is practical: clearer choices, different responses, and more manageable emotions.
Her work often centres on trauma, including childhood trauma and abuse, and on the effects of bullying and domestic violence. She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction, eating and intimacy-related issues, anger, and low self-esteem. Additional concerns she addresses include attachment and abandonment worries, body image, dissociation and control issues.
Shazia draws on several approaches in her sessions. She uses client-centred work to follow what matters to the person in front of her. Narrative ideas help separate the person from their problems by re-framing personal stories. She also uses psychodynamic and trauma-focused ways of working when exploring deeper patterns and painful memories.
Shazia asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then book a first session. Fees vary by location and sessions run on a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. This straightforward process helps people move from thinking about change to taking a first step.
How sessions work
Approaches used in online sessions
Shazia uses client-centred work to focus on what matters most to the person in the room. This approach means the therapist follows the client's priorities, listens closely and encourages the person to reflect on their experience. Narrative therapy is used to help people separate themselves from their difficulties by looking at the stories they tell about themselves; this can be useful for relationship patterns and codependency concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shazia discusses different ways of working with each client and together they decide which approach or combination feels most helpful for the person's goals and preferences. She treats this as a collaborative process rather than a fixed prescription.
Confirm the session formats available before booking, as the original biography does not list specific online formats. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. They also make it possible to work with a registered or accredited professional from another location. Shazia will discuss practical arrangements and what will help sessions fit into daily life when arranging the first appointment.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
4+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English, Hindi
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
Shazia works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression and related issues such as codependency and attachment worries.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She follows a person-centred style that encourages reflection and uses narrative and psychodynamic ideas to look at past influences on present behaviour.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has four years of professional experience working with adults on trauma, relationship and mood-related concerns.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the BACP and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and Hindi.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She accepts international clients.
How are fees and payments handled?
Fees vary by location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the See online therapy options button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.