Mustabshira Durrani, BACP

Mustabshira Durrani is a counsellor with BACP registration and 13 years of experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. Her approach is compassionate and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people find clearer ways of seeing their situation and new choices for moving forward.

She creates a supportive, non-judgemental space where people can talk about painful thoughts and feelings. Sessions are framed as a collaborative process in which the person’s experience shapes the work. Mustabshira emphasises practical understanding over jargon, and she draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with mood and wellbeing.

Her background includes many years of direct client work in the UK and a personal perspective on recovery that informs her practice. That combination of professional experience and lived understanding is used to help clients navigate fear, hopelessness and difficult transitions. She aims to help people resolve old hurts so they can move towards more contented lives.

In sessions she pays attention to patterns such as attachment concerns, abandonment, communication difficulties and control issues, as well as challenges linked to chronic pain, illness or caregiving stress. She also works with issues like body image, guilt and shame, isolation, panic attacks and post-traumatic stress.

To start, people complete a short match questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the available times. Mustabshira uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time; fees vary with location and therapist availability.

How evidence-based approaches can help online

Mustabshira draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on understanding thoughts, feelings and behaviour. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try out different, more constructive ways of thinking and acting; this can be useful for anxiety, low mood and stress. Another approach attends to the impact of past hurts and attachment patterns on current relationships and emotional responses, which can be helpful for trauma, abandonment issues and difficulty trusting oneself.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adapt them as progress is made, so the plan changes if something isn’t working.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and reduce travel time. It may also allow shorter check-ins when that suits a person’s routine, and it can reduce the need to be on camera if someone prefers. The exact session formats offered are not specified here, so check the booking details to confirm current options before you schedule.