Roda Ali, BACP

Roda Ali supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, addictions and grief. She also helps with intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, anger, career challenges, bipolar management, and coping with life changes. Roda works with concerns around compassion fatigue and offers help for attachment and codependency struggles, communication and control problems, and multicultural or immigration-related stress.

Roda is a BACP counsellor with 11 years of practice. She describes herself as an integrative therapist and adapts her approach to each person's needs. Sessions focus on listening, understanding patterns, and trying practical ways to change how people relate to themselves and others.

In sessions she helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, build emotional awareness, and practice calmer responses. Roda uses approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centred conversations, cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness and motivational interviewing to guide change. She combines these so the work matches what a person finds most useful.

Her style is straightforward and supportive. She aims to help people restore balance, connect to inner strength and make choices that feel empowering. Roda offers both shorter and longer-term counselling depending on what someone needs.

Roda works in the United Kingdom and speaks English and Somali. People who live outside the UK can enquire about working together, and she will help arrange next steps after the initial matching process.

How Roda's approaches work online

Roda uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand how early relationships shape current reactions. This work helps when intimacy, trust or recurring relationship patterns cause distress. She also uses client-centred counselling which focuses on listening and reflecting so people can find their own answers and feel heard.

Roda also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. This approach is often useful for anxiety, low mood and practical problem solving. Together these methods offer both understanding and hands-on strategies to manage day-to-day difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Roda will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that suit each person. That choice is collaborative and may change as therapy progresses.

Confirm the therapist's current session options before booking as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow follow-ups during transitions. It can also allow a shorter check-in when time is limited, or conversations without using video when that better suits someone.