Farah Naz

I am a psychotherapist of more than 25 years and have worked with thousands of people globally - in a range of settings including hospitals, community centres, prisons, schools, health centres, hospices, retirement homes, refugee centres, women centres and private practice. 

I am also a clinical supervisor, coach and trainer. 

I have written and co-written a number of handbooks on the Development of Counselling Services, Early Intervention Service Development, BAME services, Refugee Mental Health Services, Regional Health Needs Analyses and Addiction Services, and Clinical Service Plans.

As a public sector consultant of 20 years, I have also worked to develop policy and practice nationally and internationally.

I am interested in working with everyone who comes my way as well as having special interests in anxiety, grief and bereavement, PTSD work, OCD, addiction, working with older teens and couple counselling as I have developed particular approaches and courses .

I adapt my approach to meet the needs of people who come to see me. My approaches include Analytical, Transpersonal, CBT and Eriksonian Hypnotherapy.  I have a special interest in Philosophy and use this in my work where it may help especially with existential related issues. I am also a pragmatist and take a very practical approach to my work. I encourage my clients to work hard with me so we can together evoke change fast and to this end I will set homework and reading. 

I offer one-off sessions for specific issues and short and long term therapy. 

I work primarily online. 

I use a number of psychological interventions in the first session, so clients can get a good grasp of how I work. 

I also offer one-off sessions where we can address a particular issue in one session. 

Where needed I offer half hour sessions,  these can be useful for younger people and for those with high levels of anxiety. Working in this way means we can meet more than once a week.  

I offer clinical supervision to counsellors, psychotherapists and to other people working in mental health or with people. I offer a multilevel supervision where I offer:

• Clinical skill building
  
• Case consultation, including formulation/assessment and planning
• Support, empathy in a non-judgmental space
• The space to developing perspectives
• Support to integrating theory and practice
• Analytic insight  around getting stuck with a client 
• Addressing parallel processes
• Insight with button pushers
• Addressing confidentiality issues and ethical dilemmas

My experience working in mental health, women´s, domestic, disability, and BAME sector makes me a competent and knowledgeable supervisor for practitioners and workers in these fields. 

As I have set up and developed both public and private services I also support the practical development of services. 

I can work with practitioners who have a private practice. 

I also work with other professionals including leaders, medical practitioners, and educators. 

In our first session we can explore the needs of the supervisee and how we can best work to meet these needs.