Malak Niakan

My approach is integrative which means that I can draw upon a number of different psychotherapeutic approaches in order to best support you as you explore and process the issues you bring to sessions. The foundation of my practice is Person-Centred, in which you are trusted as the expert in your life, and so are the best person to know which decisions are best for you. The therapy centres the facilitation of a trusting and nurturing therapeutic environment in which you can explore your issues, reflect, and receive gentle challenges. The integrative approach also states that there may be certain approaches that fit you better, and so I draw upon knowledge of Cognitive Behavioural, Mindfulness, Existential and Psychodynamic approaches.The integrative approach is a collaborative process in which we work together to identify therapeutic goals, discuss preferences for therapeutic approaches and review your sense of the therapeutic process regularly.
You will gain a deeper understanding of who you are and what you want from your life which will help you to reconnect to yourself, improve your self-confidence and self-worth and reduce anxiety. Try me.

2020 - Dec. 2021:
Online Trauma-informed individual therapy at Apranik/Omid Foundation. Working with survivors of trauma including PTSD and CPTSD

2019 - Current:
Providing supervision for groups and individual counsellors

2017 - 2019:
Klear Minds Clinic - worked with a wide range of clients in central London

2016 - Current:
Health Assured, Employee Assistance company providing counselling to employees all over the UK

2015:
NHS IAPT counsellor

2010 - 2016:
Mental Health Officer at Multilingual Wellbeing Serice. My duties included community psycho education, mental health advocacy, management of volunteers including recrutment and training.

2009 - Current:
Private practice
Therapeutic work with adults aged 18 and over from a variety of backgrounds.

2006 - 2020:
Worked with a charity organisation as a counsellor and provided therapy for refugees and immigrants as well as Clinical supervision since 2019

2021
Accredited member of NCPS

2018
Diploma Clinical Supervisor at The Grove London, UK

2017
Cert. Couple Therapy at The Grove London, UK

2010
MA in Counselling & Psychotherapy at University of East London, UK

2007 Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy at University of East London, UK

2006
Registered member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy(BACP).