Arif Moghal
Counselling & Therapy
Are you struggling with anxieties or depression, feeling stuck, has life become confusing or difficult? Are you having relationship or family issues? Did you have difficult experiences in the past? Or maybe things aren’t working out the way you want or the way you hoped?
We all sometimes need another person to hear us and to help make sense of what is happening in our life.
I'm glad you found your way here.
Issues I Work With
I work with people with many issues, including but not limited to, unhappiness; anxiety; depression; relationships with partners and family; relationships with food; relationships with body image; low self-worth; loss; procrastination; stress; panic attacks; addiction; OCD; early attachment issues; grief and bereavement; self-harm; abuse; loneliness; separation; and insecurity. And I also work with clients who have an ADHD diagnosis.
It may also be though that you are generally dissatisfied and unhappy with your life and want to work out how to free yourself up and live a happier and better life, or find a way to live a completely different life that is more in line with your wishes and hopes.
I work one-to-one with individuals and with groups.
Cannot recommend Arif highly enough; he helped guide me to a place of understanding myself better and in turn, understanding the complexities of relationships. He set me on a life changing journey, at the heart of which is a new found connection with self.
Thank you Arif.
-- Keiron
Arif listened, listened with genuine concern, and empathy. Whatever little or large I said he LISTENED. It was only through this display of genuine behaviour, compassion and concern towards what I had to say that I was able to deeply open up. For the first time in my life the weight on my chest was lifted.
-- Yunus
About Counselling & Therapy
Each week we'll spend time together in a safe and non-judgemental space. Together, and at your pace, we will unfold and untangle the problems and difficulties in your life. In this process alone there is often a great sense of relief, unburdening and release.
It will never be about what’s wrong with you. It will be about what happened to you, it will be about how you developed ways of living that made it possible for you to cope with the relationships and circumstances in your life — and how those patterns may have become stuck in you unconsciously, getting in the way of letting you be who you are or who you want to be.
We will explore the relationships you have with others and with yourself, both from the past and in the present, and their meaning and effect on you.
All your feelings, thoughts, ideas and stories will be welcome.
And there is no obstacle in how young or old you are, what your background or your past is, or what has brought you here in this moment.
How I Work
I work with a psychodynamic focused approach, understanding how the unconscious, the past and our early relationships affect how we live now in ways that we are not fully aware of.
My work is also strongly informed by humanistic approaches, where the core values are to meet you where you are, to be genuine and non-judgemental.
I will help you recognise and feel the role of the unconscious and the past in your life as you live it now. Often the conversations are to uncover and understand emotions, feelings and aspects of relationships from the past that are stuck and still living in you and blocking, disrupting, ruling or causing damage to you, your relationship with your self and to your ability to have healthy and enriching relationships with others.
And it is also very much about my being there with you in the experience of a safe, confidential relationship; as you come into a present free of obstacles more fully and consciously, as you move towards becoming free of the stuckness and pain of living in anxieties of the future; or similarly as you become free of the stuckness, tiredness and depressions from being unconsciously located in events rooted in the past.
And, sometimes, the conversations will be just about exploring life and your experience of life, but in this too you can find and develop an ease of putting your thoughts and feelings into words, and develop an increased ease of being of who you really are.
As they may be needed I will call on aspects of modalities such as active imagination, here-and-now existential approaches and trauma-informed work.
We are a small charity that supports individuals who have developed an addiction to drugs and or alcohol. Arif volunteered to give his time to work with our service users. He conducted weekly group therapy sessions. Most of our service users have some sort of trauma that they are dealing with. Though Arif was an outsider to the group within a short period of time he managed to gain their trust and they opened up some very personal aspects of their past. This is testimony to his skill as a therapist but also his genuine concern for those he worked with. We hope we are in a position in the future to be able to recruit his services again.
-- Spinney Hill - Drugs, Alcohol & Addiction Support
Professional Memberships
Registered Member of the BACP
(British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists)
Registered Member of the NCPS
(National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society)
Associate Member of the IGA
(Institute of Group Analysis)
Qualifications
Master of Arts Degree
Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice
Diploma
Psychodynamic Counselling
Diploma
Foundation in Group Analysis
How To Start
I invite you to take the next step and get in touch if you're interested in experiencing counselling and therapy in your life.
I’m currently taking on new clients online. It’s a proven and effective way of working.
We can begin with a free initial call to meet each other and start to talk about what’s happening; or contact me by email to arrange the call.
If we continue, sessions will be at a mutually agreed and regular time for fifty minutes, once a week. My standard rates are £50 per session.