Tayyauba Sheikh, BACP, NCPS

Tayyauba Sheikh is a counsellor who focuses on talking therapy to help people move through difficult moments. She has four years of professional experience and works with people dealing with grief, stress and anxiety, relationship challenges and parenting concerns. She aims to meet people with respect, sensitivity and compassion.

She uses talking therapy as her primary way of working and adapts sessions to each person’s needs. She will discuss whether medication might be helpful and work alongside it when appropriate for the individual. Her style emphasises listening first and then helping clients build practical steps they can try between sessions.

Her approach draws on Attachment-Based ideas, Client-Centred work and Emotionally-Focused Therapy, together with mindfulness and psychodynamic perspectives. This mix helps her look at how past relationships influence current feelings and patterns, while also using present-focused skills to manage daily stress. Sessions often balance exploring emotions with planning small changes to improve day-to-day life.

Tayyauba has experience supporting people with a wide range of concerns beyond grief and anxiety, including addiction, intimacy-related difficulties, eating and self-esteem issues, anger and coping with life changes. She also works with specific themes such as abandonment, attachment issues and caregiver stress. Her practice includes attention to complex emotional patterns as well as straightforward problem solving.

Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. People interested in starting can use the site’s continue button on this profile to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

How her approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current emotional patterns. It helps people notice how they relate to others and develop new ways of feeling safer in close connections. Client-Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of sessions, with the counsellor offering warm, non-judgemental listening to help people find their own solutions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on the emotions beneath relationship struggles and helps people name and change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The counsellor will work together with each person to choose which ideas and techniques to try, based on their needs, goals and preferences. That collaboration can include reviewing what helps most and adjusting the plan as things change.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since the profile does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when schedules require them. It can also let people use video when they prefer face-to-face feeling, or rely on audio-only when less bandwidth or a quieter setup is needed. Registered or accredited professionals, including counsellors, often find these practical benefits help people keep therapy part of everyday life.