Tayyauba Sheikh, BACP, NCPS

Tayyauba Sheikh is a counsellor who uses talking therapy as her primary way of helping people. She focuses on issues such as bereavement, stress, anxiety, relationships and family concerns. She offers a calm, respectful approach and works to tailor conversations to each person’s needs.

With four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom, she brings practical, down-to-earth support for common life challenges. She talks through parenting worries, grief after loss, and the strain caused by ongoing stress or mood difficulties. She also addresses intimacy and addiction-related concerns when they arise.

Her method is collaborative: she adapts sessions to the person in front of her rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. She prioritises talking therapy but will work with prescribed medication when a client and their prescriber decide that is appropriate. The focus is on small, achievable steps people can take between sessions.

She uses ideas from attachment work, emotionally focused approaches, mindfulness and psychodynamic thinking to look at patterns and feelings. Sessions aim to clarify what matters to the client and build practical ways of coping. This can include paying attention to emotions, improving communication, and finding routines that ease daily strain.

People who are managing long-term caring roles or concerns linked to ageing and geriatric issues may find it helpful to discuss how stress and caregiver strain affect day-to-day life. Tayyauba communicates in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu and frames therapy around the goals each person brings.

To begin, she asks people to describe what they hope to change and then shapes a plan together. The emphasis is on workable strategies and steady progress over time.

How Tayyauba’s approaches work online

Attachment-based work looks at how early patterns of relating shape current connections and emotional responses. It helps when relationship dynamics or fears of abandonment repeat in adult life.

Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the centre of sessions, using empathic listening and reflection to help people understand their feelings and make clearer choices.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on identifying and reshaping emotional responses that cause distress. It can be useful for people dealing with grief, relationship pain and intense emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss goals, try out methods, and adjust the focus based on what helps most. That way the plan grows from the client’s needs and preferences rather than being imposed from the start.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the exact session formats before booking since none are listed in the profile. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy around work and family life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make sessions easier to attend if someone is balancing caregiving duties or mobility limitations. Discuss practical arrangements during the first scheduling steps to find what suits everyday life.