Layla Kareem, BACP

Layla Kareem is a qualified counsellor based in Central London who offers compassionate support to people navigating a wide range of personal difficulties. She combines a personable, flexible approach with an openness to each person's preferences, encouraging prospective clients to share what they hope to achieve from sessions. Layla aims to create a non-judgmental environment where emotions and thoughts can be explored and expressed, and she draws on psychoanalytic and person-centred ideas alongside threads of mindfulness and existential thinking to help clients find clarity and direction.

Layla is registered with the BACP, a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the United Kingdom. She works with sensitivity to individual needs and adapts her way of working to suit each person she sees, offering private sessions focused on meaningful listening and thoughtful reflection. Please note that she currently conducts sessions via text-based messaging only, and she invites anyone interested to reach out to begin a conversation about their needs and goals.

Her practice emphasizes wholehearted support and practical responsiveness, making space for clients to process difficult experiences and to develop new ways of coping and relating. Layla looks forward to hearing from prospective clients who would like to explore therapy by text.

Online approaches - how therapy adapts to digital sessions

Layla draws on client-centred therapy, which focuses on creating an accepting, empathetic space so clients can discover their own solutions; this approach is useful for building self-understanding and improving confidence in relationships and decision making. She also uses existential therapy, which explores meaning, choice, and personal responsibility to help people facing life transitions, feelings of emptiness, or questions about purpose. Attachment-based ideas inform her work around relationship patterns and early attachment wounds, offering ways to understand and shift long-standing relational responses.

Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative process. Layla works with clients to identify which methods best match their needs, goals, and personal preferences, and she adapts techniques as therapy progresses so the work remains relevant and effective.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, to attend from different locations, and to maintain continuity when life circumstances change. Layla tailors her methods to these formats so that registered professionals and therapists can deliver consistent, accessible support in ways that suit each client.