Mustabshira Durrani, BACP

Mustabshira Durrani is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with BACP accreditation and 13 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem and depression. She aims to help people find new ways of seeing their lives and discover choices that feel possible again.

She offers a non-judgemental, supportive space where clients can talk about uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. Conversations are guided with compassion and sensitivity. The work often involves looking at longstanding hurts and patterns to find practical ways forward.

Her background includes long-term clinical practice helping people manage panic, mood disorders and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people dealing with attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, and communication or control problems.

Sessions can address life transitions such as divorce, separation and grief, and themes like guilt, shame, isolation and finding life purpose. The approach is practical and person-centred, aiming to help people regain calm, build confidence and cope with difficult emotions.

Mustabshira encourages people to take small, steady steps towards change. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients make sense of their experience. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

Evidence-based techniques and online care

Mustabshira uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety, trauma and low mood. One common approach helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Another approach focuses on processing traumatic memories and building coping skills so everyday life becomes more manageable.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and agree a plan that fits you. That plan can change as progress is made, and the client and therapist decide on the best steps together.

If you are considering online therapy, please check which session formats the therapist currently offers before booking. Many people find online sessions easier to fit into busy days, removing travel time and allowing more flexible scheduling. Online work can make short check-ins, regular weekly sessions or focused work on specific problems easier to arrange and keep up with in everyday life.