Layla Kareem, BACP

Layla Kareem is a BACP counsellor who supports people facing midlife concerns and other life transitions. She helps with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem and coping with big changes. Layla also offers support for grief, trauma and abuse, mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar, and work-related issues like career stress and compassion fatigue.

Layla keeps sessions flexible and listens first, asking what each person wants from counselling. She uses a person-centred stance so clients can speak freely and be heard. Text-based sessions are currently offered as the working format.

Her background blends several therapeutic ideas. She draws on attachment-based work to look at how past relationships shape present feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy can be used when intimacy and relationship feelings are central.

Existential ideas and Jungian perspectives appear in her ways of working, inviting reflection on meaning, identity and inner life. That mix allows practical steps alongside deeper conversation about values and purpose.

Layla has six years' experience and works from the United Kingdom. Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.

How Layla’s approaches work for online support

Layla combines several approaches to help with emotional and practical concerns. Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships affect current patterns of relating and emotional responses; it can help when trust, separation or closeness are causing distress. Client-centred counselling puts the person's experience at the heart of the work, offering a non-judgemental listening space that supports clarity and self-directed change. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and introduces manageable techniques to change them.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the therapy process. Layla works collaboratively, discussing goals and preferences and adjusting the approach together. That means practical steps can be taken early on, while deeper themes are explored at a comfortable pace.

The biography specifies text-based sessions as the current format, so please confirm any other options before booking. Online work can make it simpler to fit counselling into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce travel time. Many people find that this flexibility helps them maintain regular sessions and practise new skills between meetings.