Mr Yasir Ali, PGDip

I specialize in relational, depth-oriented psychotherapy with adults, with a particular focus on how early experiences and attachment patterns shape current relationships, self-worth, and ways of coping. My work is integrative, grounded in Relational & Psychodynamic therapy exploring how past relationships and family dynamics live on in the present, often outside awareness, and how these patterns show up between us in the room while making sense of repeated patterns in closeness and distance, conflict, withdrawal, jealousy, or people-pleasing, including how these show up in romantic, family, and work relationships. Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Parts Work helps you get to know your “inner parts” – critics, caretakers, angry or shut-down parts, and the younger wounded places they protect – so that your decisions can come from clarity and compassion rather than old fear or survival habits. Trauma-Informed and a Shame-Aware Practice works gently with the impact of emotional and psychological abuse, complex trauma, and chronic shame on the nervous system, relationships, and sense of self, at a pace that respects your capacity and safety. I also find myself supporting clients with anxiety, depression, anger, burnout, grief, and “numb but overwhelmed” states – not only by managing symptoms, but by understanding what they’re trying to signal about your life and history. Drawing on Jungian ideas, I sometimes work with dreams as a direct doorway into the unconscious, using their images to understand what your deeper psyche is trying to express or re-balance. Across these areas, my intention is to offer a space where your shame, confusion, and contradictions are welcome – a place to explore how you became who you are, and what might now want to change.