Asma Khan

To be understood is to belong.

My therapeutic philosophy centres on creating a safe, collaborative space where clients can feel genuinely seen, heard and understood. I believe many difficulties persist not because people lack strength but because they have lacked the right space to express, explore and organise their inner experience without judgement. Therapy is that space: offering clarity, containment and compassionate dialogue to understand emotional, cognitive and behavioural patterns.

I believe healing is rooted in understanding, because understanding fosters belonging, and belonging enables meaningful psychological change.

My role is to offer attentive listening, to foster curiosity into what maintains distress and to help clients build both insight and practical strategies to move forward. I show up with empathy and clinical honesty, balancing warmth with purposeful challenge, supporting clients in reclaiming self-worth, emotional resilience and agency in their lives.

Therapy is a shared journey, paced to the individual, grounded in trust - where people grow braver because they finally feel they belong in the process of their own change.

I work as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT) with an integrative clinical philosophy. This means my work is grounded in CBT: structured and evidence-based  while also drawing on other therapeutic approaches when it benefits the person in front of me. CBT provides the framework and clinical direction; integrative therapy provides the relational depth, flexibility and human understanding that helps healing feel possible and personalised.

Therapy begins with a clear understanding of your difficulties and what keeps them going. From there, sessions are purposeful, transparent and practical. Alongside CBT tools and resources, I may thoughtfully integrate humanistic, trauma-informed, relational, or culturally-informed approaches to support emotional processing, self-understanding and safety in the therapeutic relationship.

I support people through struggles including anxiety, trauma, low mood, identity conflict, interpersonal stress and challenges related to self-worth. My style balances clinical clarity with compassion, offering consistency, psychological safety and grounded explanation, while also allowing space to explore the underlying meaning of your experiences, not just the symptoms.

The aim of therapy is to reduce distress, deepen insight, strengthen emotional regulation and self-trust and support meaningful change that transfers into everyday life - giving you understanding, agency and a realistic path forward that you can sustain beyond the therapy room.

The first session is an assessment to understand what’s been bringing you to therapy and how it affects your everyday life. We’ll talk openly about your current struggles, emotional reactions, physical stress responses, and the ways you cope when things feel overwhelming. My questions are led by curiosity and understanding: not judgement.

I’ll help you build a clear picture of what’s going on by gently showing you the links between your thoughts, feelings and responses, so it feels like we’re untangling it together. We’ll then identify realistic goals, simple and meaningful that become the focus of your therapy journey.

During this session, you’ll also have space to ask questions and understand how therapy will be shaped around you, your experiences, and what feels manageable. 

The aim is for you to leave feeling genuinely heard, clearer in your own mind and confident in the next steps ahead.

To be understood is to belong and to be well-supported is to grow.

As an Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor I support therapists, trainees and mental health professionals across a range of modalities. While my clinical training is rooted in CBT for structure, formulation and risk-informed decision-making, my supervisory approach is integrative in philosophy: meaning I draw on multiple therapeutic perspectives, clinical frameworks and reflective practice to support the supervisee, not the model itself.

I prioritise clinical clarity, ethical awareness, professional confidence and practitioner wellbeing. I aim to create supervision that feels safe to think aloud in, structured enough to guide clinical reasoning and supportive of both personal style and professional growth.

Ethical and competent practice are the foundation of effective therapy and supervision. I work in a consciously anti-oppressive, non-discriminatory way, supporting practitioners to consider power, identity, and systemic barriers as part of clinical competence. I bring cultural attunement into supervision as a professional strength, helping therapists work ethically and confidently with diverse client identities while keeping sessions clinically grounded unless culture is the chosen focus.

I provide clinical supervision that is reflective, structured and clinically grounded, while remaining human and accessible. 

Supervision sessions are designed to support:

• Case direction and clinical decision-making

• Risk assessment, safeguarding and ethical dilemmas

• Boundaries, relational dynamics and practitioner responses

• Translating reflection into clear intervention planning

• Accreditation support, clinical confidence and role development

• Sustainable and grounded practitioner growth

My aim is to support supervisees to think more clearly, feel more competent in their clinical role and grow professionally in a way that is sustainable beyond supervision.

Your first supervision session is an orientation and collaborative contracting appointment. We’ll explore what you need from supervision, how you best work and think clinically, and what areas you want to strengthen, professionally and ethically.

We’ll agree a clear supervision plan together by identifying:

• Your supervision goals (e.g. risk confidence, case direction, boundaries, accreditation)

• Your clinical role and professional context

• Your preferred way of reflecting and working in supervision

• Any strengths or areas you want to develop further

I’ll clearly explain how we’ll work together, establish safe and supportive boundaries for the supervision relationship, and agree expectations, pacing and structure.

The aim is for you to leave the first session feeling:

✔ clear on how supervision will support you

✔ reassured it will be practical and manageable

✔ confident in the shared working plan

✔ and supported in your development

This session sets the foundation for our ongoing supervision work: professional, reflective, safe and clinically purposeful.