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Counselling & psychotherapy for adults

Understanding ourselves can change how we live.

Something may have changed, become difficult to carry, or stayed with you for longer than you expected. You may understand exactly what is happening, or simply know that something no longer feels right.

A tangled thread gradually becoming a living branch
What feels tangled can still find its way.
Imran Ahmed

I’m Imran, a counsellor and psychotherapist. I work with adults going through difficult periods in life, as well as people living with problems that are longstanding, complex or deeply affecting everyday life.

You may have a diagnosis or several ways of understanding what you are experiencing, or no name for it at all.

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BACP Registered member NCPS Accredited Registrant IPT UK Accredited Practitioner, membership number 2021570, expires March 2027 Accredited Practitioner
The quiet TalkWise counselling room in Manchester city centre

Friday in Manchester city centre

A quiet room, with space to speak freely.

Life can leave little time to pause and notice how you are feeling. Therapy offers time to be heard and begin making sense of what you are carrying.

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When we begin to talk

Therapy begins with what you bring.

Talking openly to someone you have never met can feel exposing, particularly when there are things you have kept to yourself, found difficult to explain, or perhaps never said out loud before.

Speaking this openly involves trust, and I will treat that trust with care.

Read how therapy works →
From what has been endured, something new can still rise.

What might bring you to therapy?

You may have spent a long time trying to understand what is happening or finding ways to manage it alone. From the outside, life may still appear to be carrying on. Inside, you may feel hurt, frightened, exhausted, angry, numb, ashamed or unable to settle. You may know what has brought you here, or only know that continuing in the same way has become difficult.

When life changes

A relationship may have ended, or you may be grieving someone important to you. Changes in family, health, work, identity or circumstances can bring loss, rejection, betrayal, fear, anger or loneliness. Sometimes what hurts is not only what happened, but the future you imagined, the relationship you thought you had, or the person you believed yourself to be.

When living becomes harder

Depression can leave life feeling heavy, empty or stripped of pleasure. Anxiety may keep your mind and body on alert, repeatedly anticipating what could go wrong. Trauma, loneliness, low self-worth or overwhelming emotions can make ordinary life feel harder, while the people around you may have little idea how much effort it takes simply to keep going.

When familiar patterns return

You may want closeness and also fear it. You may hide what you need and then feel unseen, keep giving more than you can sustain, withdraw before someone can hurt you, or work harder without ever feeling that you are enough. Recognising a pattern does not necessarily free you from it. We can explore what it is connected to, what keeps drawing you back into it and what might gradually become possible instead.

When the past is still present

Earlier experiences do not always return as clear memories. Sometimes they remain in what you expect from yourself, what you fear from other people, the roles you find yourself taking on and the ways you have learned to protect yourself. Family, attachment, culture, faith, duty and belonging may all matter, including the distance between who you are privately and who you feel you are expected to be. Read more about culture, family and identity →

Two adults talking while mirrors behind them show a young girl and a boy looking down.

A little about me.

More than two decades of counselling and mental-health work shape how I listen and what I notice, but they do not tell me who you are. We begin with your experience, and with what your life has been like for you.

Would you like to know more? →

Sessions and fees

Individual counselling & psychotherapy

£70per session

50 minutesper appointment

Face-to-face in Manchester

Royal Exchange Building
Old Bank Street, Manchester M2 7PE

Friday appointments at the Royal Exchange Building.

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Private online sessions

Saturday and Sunday sessions take place through Microsoft Teams.

Professional background

MSc Counselling & PsychotherapyUniversity of Salford

Diploma in Person Centred Counselling

Interpersonal Psychotherapy for DepressionSpecialist IAPT-accredited training

BACP Registered memberNCPS Accredited RegistrantIPT UK Accredited Practitioner

Confidentiality

Your privacy matters to me.

Before therapy begins, I will explain how your information is protected, how confidentiality works in supervision and the limited circumstances in which confidentiality may need to be broken. You can ask me about any of this at any time.

Read about confidentiality and its limits ↗

Taking the next step

When you feel ready.

You do not need to be certain that therapy is right for you, or know exactly what you would say. If you would like to ask a question or see whether talking with me feels right, you can begin with a brief private enquiry.

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