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Jumanah Younis Phone Email jyounistherapy@gmail.com Website www.jumanahyounis.com Professional Bodies NCPS member

Trauma-informed, embodied humanistic therapy

Fees

£75 per session, concessions may be available

 

How I Work

As a humanistic counsellor, I aim to create a warm, collaborative and non-judgemental space in therapy. My approach is relational and trauma-informed, with a focus on embodied experience. Since from an early age we experience the world through relationships, often the problems that cause us seek therapy reflect responses to relational challenges.

Through attention to our relationship as client and therapist, we can explore what stories may be lingering that no longer hold true for you, and the impact of trauma on the mind-body. In turn, therapy can be a space to experiment with other ways of being.

Since we experience the world through our bodies, I encourage attention to bodily cues or feelings, which can provide different information to cognitive processes. I also account for social, cultural and political conditions which may have affected your experience, now and in the past.

Main areas of work

As a queer person and person of colour, I have supported clients who would specifically like to explore the impact of racism, discrimination or abuse on their sexuality, including conversion therapy, questions about spirituality and navigating conservative families.

I previously worked for two years as a volunteer counsellor at an LGBTQ+ charity working with queer, trans and gender non-conforming clients, and in my private practice I specialise in gender, sexual and relationship diversity; I am confident exploring gender troubles and transition, dysphoria, eating disorders and other issues.

I previously worked for five years in domestic and sexual abuse support services like Refuge and Rape Crisis, and I have supported many survivors of abuse in my therapy practice. Outside of my work as a therapist I am a freelance writer on themes related to therapy and social justice.

 

Training / Qualifications

Postgraduate diploma with distinction, University of Brighton
Foundation Certificate in humanistic counselling & psychotherapy, Metanoia