Roda Ali, BACP

Roda Ali is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with 11 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, addiction concerns and anger. Sessions are offered in English and Somali and international clients are accepted.

Roda uses an integrative style and draws from several practical approaches. She helps people talk through traumatic experiences such as refugee trauma, people trafficking and domestic violence, and she supports those coping with life transitions and bereavement. She also works on self-esteem, panic symptoms and seasonal mood changes.

In sessions she focuses on uncovering the patterns that keep problems repeating. Conversations aim to identify thoughts, feelings and behaviours that feed stress or anger. She blends techniques that look at attachment history with ways to test and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. Mindfulness skills are introduced to help with intense reactions and to slow the pace of strong emotions.

Roda offers both shorter-term and longer-term counselling depending on what a person needs. Practical tasks and gentle challenges are used alongside listening and reflection. Clients may be asked to try exercises between sessions to practise new ways of responding in real situations.

Her background includes work with people affected by trauma, including trafficking and refugee-related trauma, plus domestic violence and panic disorders. That experience informs how she helps people rebuild confidence and regain more control over feelings and relationships.

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