About Mehbuba
Mehbuba Khalid is a counsellor who helps people facing relationship, trauma and intimacy difficulties. She works with individuals on issues such as depression, anxiety, grief, addictions, sleeping problems and low self-esteem. Mehbuba speaks English, Bengali, Hindi and Urdu and sees clients based in the United Kingdom as well as international clients.
Mehbuba draws on somatic therapy to help people reconnect with what their body is telling them. She also uses attachment-based and client-centred approaches to look at how past bonds shape current patterns.
Background and approach
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, and elements of the Gottman Method, inform her work when trauma or relationship repair are central concerns. She holds BACP registration with five years of clinical experience. Alongside practice she has experience supervising other practitioners and teaching counselling students, which keeps her thinking about reflective and ethical practice.
In sessions she aims to build a calm, respectful space where people can talk through painful experiences and learn practical ways to manage distress. Conversations often combine verbal reflection with attention to physical sensations and patterns of relating. Practical steps for getting started are straightforward: clients complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to availability.
Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and subscriptions can be cancelled at any time.
How her approaches work online
Mehbuba uses somatic therapy to help people notice and work with bodily sensations linked to stress and trauma, which can be useful when emotions are stored in the body. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people understand repeating cycles in their close connections. Client-centred therapy focuses on creating a supportive, non-judgemental space where clients lead the pace and topics of discussion.Finding the right approach is part of the process and Mehbuba treats it as a collaboration. She will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adapt methods as needed, combining talking with body-aware practices when that feels helpful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this style of work. Video calls allow visual connection and observation of non-verbal cues, while phone, live chat or text messaging can suit those who prefer reduced visual intensity or need more flexible contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and time zone differences, and support ongoing work across distances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu