Arif Moghal
Counselling & Therapy
Are you struggling with anxieties or depression, feeling stuck, has life become confusing or difficult? Are you having relationship or family issues? Did you have difficult experiences in the past? Are things not working out the way you want or the way you hoped?
We all sometimes need another person to hear us, and to help us make sense of, relieve and change what is happening in our life.
I’m glad you found your way here.
Issues I Work With
I work with people with many issues, including but not limited to anxieties; depression; relationships with partners and family; relationships with food; relationships with body image; low self-worth; loss; procrastination; stress; panic attacks; addiction recovery; OCD; early attachment issues; grief and bereavement; issues with anger; abuse; loneliness; separation; and insecurity. I also work with clients who have a diagnosis of ADHD.
It may also be though that you are generally dissatisfied and unhappy with your life and want to work out how to free yourself up and live a happier and better life, or find a way to live a completely different life that is more in line with your wishes and hopes.
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I work one-to-one with individuals and with groups.
Cannot recommend Arif highly enough; he helped guide me to a place of understanding myself better and in turn, understanding the complexities of relationships. He set me on a life changing journey, at the heart of which is a new found connection with self.
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Thank you Arif.
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-- Keiron
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​​​​​I am no stranger to therapy having had multiple therapists and many many sessions over the last 5 years. However none have been anywhere near as helpful as Arif has been. In the relatively short amount of time we have been working together, I have learnt a lot about myself, and have made some significant strides in multiple areas of my life.
I have found Arif particularly helpful in getting to grips with my late-diagnosed ADHD.
Arif is a tremendously kind, intuitive, compassionate, and knowledgeable individual, and I very much look forward to continue working with him.
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-- AA​​​
About Counselling & Therapy
Each week we'll spend time together in a safe and non-judgemental space. Together, and at your pace, we will unfold and untangle the problems and difficulties in your life. In this process alone there is often a great relief and unburdening.​
It will never be about what’s wrong with you. It will be about what happened to you — about how you developed ways of living and being that made it possible for you to cope with the relationships and circumstances in your life, and how those patterns may have become stuck in you, getting in the way of letting you be who you are or who you want to be.​
We will explore and understand your relationships with others and with yourself, in the past and in the present, their meaning and their effect on you.
All your feelings, thoughts, curiosities and stories will be welcome.​
And there is no obstacle in how young or old you are, what your background or your past is, or what has brought you here in this moment.
How I Work
I occasionally taken on shorter term work. But I engage in mainly long term, open-ended, deeper and relational work with a psychodynamic focus, understanding how the unconscious, the unspoken, the past and early relationships are affecting you now in ways you are not fully aware of.​
The aim in this approach is to liberate you from the influence of past experiences, so you can enjoy life more fully and happily in the present.
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My work is also strongly informed by humanistic approaches where the core values are to meet you where you are, to be non-judgemental and genuine.
I will be there with you every week in a safe, confidential and judgement-free relationship as, in time, you experience and understand who you are; as you come into the present and life more fully and intentionally — as you process and let go the pains and difficulties of living in anxieties of the future — or as you end the tiredness, weight, depressions and trauma of living unconsciously in events of the past.
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The conversations will sometimes be just about exploring life and your experience of life, but in this too you can find and develop an ease of putting your thoughts and feelings into words, and develop an increased ease of being of who you really are.
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As they may be needed I may call on aspects of modalities such as active imagination, here-and-now existential approaches and trauma-informed work.
Arif listened, listened with genuine concern, and empathy. Whatever little or large I said he LISTENED. It was only through this display of genuine behaviour, compassion and concern towards what I had to say that I was able to deeply open up. For the first time in my life the weight on my chest was lifted.
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-- Yunus
We are a small charity that supports individuals who have developed an addiction to drugs and or alcohol. Arif volunteered to give his time to work with our service users. He conducted weekly group therapy sessions. Most of our service users have some sort of trauma that they are dealing with. Though Arif was an outsider to the group within a short period of time he managed to gain their trust and they opened up some very personal aspects of their past. This is testimony to his skill as a therapist but also his genuine concern for those he worked with. We hope we are in a position in the future to be able to recruit his services again.
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-- Spinney Hill - Drugs, Alcohol & Addiction Support​
Professional Memberships
Registered Member of the BACP
(British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists)
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Registered Member of the NCPS
(National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society)
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Associate Member of the IGA
(Institute of Group Analysis)​​​​​
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Qualifications​
Master of Arts Degree
Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice
Diploma
Psychodynamic Counselling​
Diploma
Foundation in Group Analysis
How To Start
If you are interested in experiencing counselling and therapy in your life the next step is to get in touch through one of the contacts below.
Currently, I'm taking on new clients online, a proven and effective way of working.
We begin with a free initial call to meet each other and start to talk about what’s happening; or contact me by email to arrange the call.​ From this we can arrange an initial assessment meeting.
If we continue, sessions will be at a mutually agreed and regular time for fifty minutes, once a week. I currently offer a free assessment. My standard rates for sessions following assessment are £60 per weekly session.