Azinus Zarrinkhat

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What if there's more to your story than the one you've come to believe about yourself?

Perhaps you're unsure where to begin, what to say, or whether therapy is right for you. We can start right there.

I'm a relational integrative counsellor working with young people and adults. Being human is complex, and I don't believe there's one way to experience life or approach therapy. My practice values difference: our cultures, gender and sexual identities, neurodiversity, relationships and lived experiences shape our sense of self and belonging. I believe therapy should honour these differences, adapting to your needs rather than expecting you to fit a mould.

I see therapy as a partnership. You bring your own knowledge and understanding of yourself, and I bring my therapeutic skills, experience and a genuine commitment to understanding your world.

II offer warmth, openness and thoughtful challenge to our relationship, remaining attuned to your needs. How we work together is just as important as what we explore. I'll listen with care, ask questions, share reflections and, when helpful, offer perspectives that invite you to see things differently.

I believe we all have the capacity to grow and discover more about ourselves. Therapy can help us recognise what has shaped us, develop greater self-awareness and discover choices we may not have considered before. It's not about becoming someone else, but finding greater freedom to be ourselves and live in ways that feel meaningful to us.

My experience includes counselling adults and volunteering as a counsellor with young people at Off the Record in Twickenham. Additionally, I assist teaching at Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, which gives me the opportunity to support trainee counsellors while continuing to learn, integrate and reflect on my own practice.

Being integrative means, I draw on a variety of different therapeutic approaches, rather than working in just one way. 

These include Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Person-centred, Gestalt, Existential and Transpersonal. 

I also call upon Jungian ideas of archetypes, symbolism and dreams as well as mythology, philosophy, feminism and spirituality. 

Sometimes words alone aren't enough to express what we're experiencing. Alongside talking therapy, we can draw on creative approaches such as drawing, guided imagery, visualisation, writing and journaling to explore thoughts and feelings in different ways. These are always invitations rather than expectations, giving you the freedom to discover what feels comfortable, meaningful and helpful to you.

It is important you find the right therapist for you, so I offer a 20 minute consultation to experience how it feels to spend time together, and to explore how we might work together.

This is an opportunity to meet and to begin to get to know each other, for you to ask any questions about me or the counselling process, and to talk about what brings you to therapy.

​I may ask some questions about your family, relationships, work, and so forth. Please share whatever feels comfortable. This will help bring to light your history and background, and so set the context for our work.

​By the end of this, you may have a good idea of whether you want to work together and continue with our sessions, or you might want to think it over.

Please feel free to get in touch.

I look forward to hearing from you.