Mehbuba Khalid, BACP
Calm listener who focuses on relationships
Details
| Name | Mehbuba Khalid |
|---|---|
| Credentials | BACP |
| Based in | United Kingdom |
| Registered with | BACP |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu |
| Years in practice | 5 |
About Mehbuba
Mehbuba Khalid is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling stuck by focusing on relationships and personal stories. She works with adults who are facing issues like depression, trauma, addiction, grief, or difficulty with intimacy. Sessions are offered in English, Bengali, Hindi and Urdu to suit diverse backgrounds.
Mehbuba uses Narrative Therapy alongside attachment-focused and client-centred ways of working. That means she pays attention to the stories people tell about themselves, and how relationships shape those stories.
Background and approach
Conversations are led at the client’s pace and focus on what matters most to them. Her practice draws on five years of direct experience and a BACP credential, and she has worked with people on issues such as sleeping problems, eating concerns, parenting strain, career crossroads, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and persistent self-esteem or control difficulties. In sessions she keeps the language simple and practical. Clients can expect to talk about specific moments, notice patterns, and try small, manageable changes between meetings.
Mehbuba also uses approaches that attend to how the body and past experiences affect present feelings. Outside one-to-one work she supervises other practitioners and teaches counselling students, which informs her reflective approach. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions that suit their schedule.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Relationship issues, Trauma and abuse, Intimacy-related issues among the things Mehbuba works with, alongside the areas below.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Mehbuba among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Mehbuba among the ways she works.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Listed by Mehbuba among the ways she works.
- Gottman Method: Listed by Mehbuba among the ways she works.
- Somatic Therapy: Listed by Mehbuba among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Mehbuba among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Mehbuba directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Mehbuba directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How narrative and attachment work online
Mehbuba draws on Narrative Therapy to help people examine the stories they live by and consider different ways of telling their experience. This approach suits people wanting to reframe difficult memories, identity questions or relationship patterns.She also uses Attachment-Based ideas to look at how close relationships affect feelings and behaviour. That work helps when trust, intimacy or recurring conflict are central concerns. Alongside those, a client-centred stance keeps sessions grounded in what the person needs in the moment and allows the conversation to unfold at their pace.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, try ideas in sessions, and adjust the way you work together as needed. Collaboration helps find what feels most useful rather than imposing one method.
Online therapy with Mehbuba is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, giving practical flexibility. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone calls work with lower bandwidth, and messaging suits quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caring duties or travel while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
Common questions about this listing
What issues can I bring to therapy?
Mehbuba works with a wide range of concerns such as relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, eating worries, sleeping problems and low self-esteem.
What is the therapeutic style like?
Her style combines Narrative Therapy with attachment-aware and client-centred approaches, focusing on personal stories and relationship patterns in plain, practical conversation.
How much experience does she have?
She has five years of clinical experience and also provides clinical supervision and teaching to counselling students.
What credentials and location are listed?
Her listed credential is BACP and she practices from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English, Bengali, Hindi and Urdu, and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start working with this counsellor?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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