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counselling,Therapy, Couple's Counselling / Marriage cOUNSELLING

Rickmansworth AND NORTHWOOD

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CALL 020 3488 4231

'Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.'

Maya Angelou


Shireen Noor - Couples Counsellor and Therapist - Rickmansworth and Northwood

I am a qualified and accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist working with individuals and couples. I see individuals from 21 years and upwards. I am a culturally sensitive South Asia therapist based in the UK offering therapy worldwide.

To view my training and qualifications, please visit my 'About Me' page. You can also read how counselling has helped some of my clients here

Registered practitioner for BUPA, AXA and Healix private insurance


COUPLES COUNSELLING SPECIALIST

“Know that one day your pain will become your cure”

— Rumi

Do you need help with:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Panic attacks
  • Couples counselling
  • Relationship Therapy
  • Family Therapy
  • Marriage Counselling
  • Adult child and Parent

  • Grief
  • Bereavement
  • Trauma
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Postnatal Depression
  • Menopause Symptoms
  • Cultural Identity
  • Second Generation children
  • Affairs

As your counsellor and therapist I do my best to make you feel heard, listened and comfortable to speak about what has brought you to counselling.

Therapy helps you explore the historical, cultural, family, psychosocial and psychosexual factors that have led you to form certain patterns of behaviours and views of yourself. These patterns may have helped to serve you at a certain time in your life but this may not be the case any longer.

As well as talking in the counselling sessions, I leave it open to you to speak about your dreams, bring in any art work, pieces of literature or other materials that you want to in the sessions.

When a client tells me that they are anxious or depressed I don't claim to know what it means and that I know best. I work with you to unpack what this means to you. Together we explore how the current problem has been shaped by your unconscious mental life.

How We Work Together

  • My approach is psychoanalytic and relational, which means we with more than presenting symptoms. We work with layers beneath them
  • Including patterns, relationships and experiences that have shaped how you move through the world.
  • I work with individuals and couples where culture, migration, shame, intergenerational transmission are not background issues but central ones.
  • Therapy with me is a space where things that are hardest to name are given room to emerge.

Our Sessions

  • I offer free initial consultations

  • Therapy sessions are weekly.

  • Sessions are shaped around your pace and needs.

  • Short term or long term therapy. offered.

  • International clients welcome.

  • Online, telephone, face to face and hybrid therapy sessions offered.

Your Needs


  • Together we explore your experiences at your pace, helping you to gain deeper understanding and emotional clarity.

  • Therapy offers a confidential space to speak openly, reflect and feel heard.

  • You may be struggling with anxiety, relationship difficulties, loss, trauma or feeling emotionally overwhelmed.

  • Therapy can help you build healthier boundaries, stronger relationships and deeper connection to yourself.

“Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives. It shapes the way we live, the way we love and the way we make sense of the world. It is at the deepest root of our deepest wounds. Unaddressed trauma keeps perpetuating painful patterns in our lives.”

  — Gabor Mate

Couples Counselling

I am a licensed couples counsellor, working with couples navigating relationship difficulties, emotional disconnection and the pressures that modern life, family and culture can place on a relationship.

My experiences include working with couples presenting with:

  • New parents
  • Intercultural Interfaith couples
  • Trans-generational trauma
  • Asian Couples counselling
  • Divorce
  • Affairs,
  • Same-sex and LGBTQ+ couples
  • Cultural and generational expectations
  • South Asian relationship dynamics
  • Family/in-laws

I work with couples from diverse cultural backgrounds, intercultural and interfaith relationships, blended families, where family expectations, identity, religion and generational experiences can often shape the relationship dynamic in complex ways.

Relationship therapy offers a respectful and confidential space where all aspects of identity, culture, sexuality and relationship experience can be explored openly.

MORE INFORMATION

Please see my blog, The Journey Of Menopause and Relationships dedicated to supporting women and couples as they go through the menopause journey, relationships, and emotional wellness.

South Asian Heritage Therapy

Alongside my wider psychotherapy practise, I also work closely with South Asian individuals and couples navigating cultural, relational and emotional difficulties.

As a South Asian therapist, I understand how culture, family expectations, identity, shame and intergenerational experiences can deeply shape emotional wellbeing and relationships.

Many of my clients tell me that it is a relief for them not having to explain every cultural nuance, expectation or family dynamic from the beginning.

If you would like to arrange an initial consultation or have any questions about therapy, please feel free to contact me by phone or email.

I aim to respond to all enquiries within 48 hours.

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Rickmansworth

My therapy practice in Rickmansworth can be reached via the Metropolitan line on the underground. Rickmansworth is within easy reach of Northwood, Finchley, Wembley Park, Oxhey, Bushey, Croxley Green, Ruislip, Watford, St Albans, Hemel Hempstead, Northwood, Pinner, Chorleywood, Harrow, Uxbridge, Northwick Park, Moor Park, Denham, Chalfont, Chesham and Pinner Parking: The Rickmansworth Therapy practise has plenty of off street free parking available.

Northwood

My therapy practise in Northwood is within walking distance of Northwood and Northwood Hills underground Station. Both stations are on the metropolitan line and are easy access from Pinner, Harrow, Harrow on the Hill, Hatch End, Finchley road, Swiss Cottage and Wembley Park. If you are driving here there is free parking available at the practise.

“I began seeing Shireen when I was 20 years old, coming to her for a myriad of reasons: struggling with the bereavement of my mother who died when I was 16, as well a life of separation from my father, issues of personal identity, anxiety and depression, problems at university and difficulties in a long term relationship...

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I was also afflicted with traumatic memories and half-memories which I was struggling to make sense of.


Unlike previous therapists and counsellors whose help I had enlisted over the years, my sessions with Shireen provided me for the first time in my life with a space in which I could say absolutely anything I needed to, wanted to, or happened to.

I found that the space Shireen held for me really enabled me to begin a process of healing which had been long overdue. When I think back to the person I was during my life before psychoanalysis with her, I am astounded by the degree to which I was beholden to my suffering, especially anxious and obsessive thoughts, a total lack of a sense of agency and motivation, and the repetition, in my dreams, in my words, in my interpersonal relationships, of traumatic events from my childhood.


All of this sounds pretty deep and maybe if you're reading this you'd think that my sessions with Shireen were heavy or emotionally cumbersome. This is most certainly not the case. Shireen's energy is warm, light, welcoming, and therapeutic. The only way I can describe it is her 'healing vibes'- I started to find that just as her practice allowed me to truly cry, to truly mourn, to speak the damaged and wounded parts of myself freely, it also allowed me to truly laugh, truly joke, truly dream and begin to speculate not simply about the suffering I had experienced, what had been done to me, but about what I WANTED, about what, and how, I desired, and how to dance with my desire rather than be ashamed or crushed or terrified by it.


This is all to say that I cannot recommend Shireen's practice enough. Psychoanalysis is not a quick fix, and it is also not always so easy and fun- but Shireen had a shining capacity to lighten the load of my emotional suffering and to make the daunting prospect of healing and facing one's demons actually enjoyable, actually freeing and explorative rather than onerous.


I think before I saw Shireen, the grip I had on my own life and experience of the world was deathly tight- I was holding on for dear life, muscles cramping, tears in my eyes, not much hope left..


Slowly but surely, with her, she showed me it was okay to relax my grip, that I would be safe if even only in the sessions with her, I let go. The tension in my body and mind could begin to ease- I was so afraid of falling, of free-falling into an abyss, but she was there, it was okay, I was safe (even if this feeling of safety at first felt very foreign to me, because of the life I had had.)


Only once I had practiced letting go in sessions, could I actually get a healthier hold on my life, a grip which did not cause me to cramp, and which I could relax when I wanted- free falling became falling in style, like Buzz Lightyear! haha!

Thank you from the depths of my heart Shireen- to infinity and beyond!”

Thank you again Shireen - you have truly helped me and I miss our sessions terribly! I am grateful for everything - including the adjustments you made for me, and for being helpful instead of hostile when I couldnt remember appointments.

"Shireen has been my rock over two years. She did an excellent job of being a human without ever making it about herself, a true mark of professionalism in the therapy world, and I felt her humanity and empathy throughout that time, which was one of the hardest in my life having become a first-time parent. I definitely learnt a lot through our sessions. The main one that sticks out is to be kind and loving to the people we love the most and not to take out our anger on them. There is much more she helped me with, and I am grateful. If I return to therapy I will 100% be asking Shireen first."

“The therapy experience has been invaluable to me and I wanted to thank you for helping me become a healthier and more centered version of myself.”

“Shireen is a kind but determined psychotherapist. She drives me in the right direction without pushing me. I never felt judged by her. My life in the last 5 years has completely changed and most of my achievements have been done with her... the most important thing I can say is... "the best choice I've made in my life has been to start a psychotherapist journey with the right woman.”

“Just a little note to say thank you for all your support over the last year or so. I can really see the changes I have made and feel our work together has been very constructive.”

“I have had the opportunity to sit with Shireen who is amazing. She actually listens to you which I feel is rare. I felt safe talking to her which is so important... I would definitely recommend Shireen's sessions.”

“Amazing woman who listens patiently and makes you feel completely at ease, highly recommend her.”

“My session with Shireen have really helped me to understand my anxiety and learn ways to cope with it. The support has made a big difference to my life. Thank you Shireen for always being approachable and for listening.”

“Shireen's understating of human emotion is undeniably accurate as she lets you tell your own story.”

“A heartfelt thank you for helping me and in turn my family over the past 10 months.”

“Shireen is the most wonderfully patient and caring therapist and counsellor. She helps with excellent coping strategies for various issues and her advice is always spot on and stays with you. I highly recommend her to anyone who needs to work through hard times in life.”

“I took part in an online workshop "Creating Mental Wellbeing in the Home during Covid 19' run by Shireen Noor of 'Flourish with Therapy' in April 2020. It was a fantastic workshop, very interactive and practical...

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...and I was very impressed with how Shireen drew each participant out on their individual issues and concerns. and was able to help them make sense whether it be dealing with huge change and managing work/home boundaries (working from home) that was for me personally, to creating time and space for yourself, dealing with fear and anxiety regarding the whole Covid 19 situation and generally and how to maintain mental wellbeing.”

“Shireen is very easy to talk to and I felt comfortable working with her. I highly recommend her.”

Get in touch

If you wish to book an initial session with me please feel free to contact me on enquiries@shireennoor.com or 0203 4884231.

If you want to book a therapy consultation please call or email me. If I don't reply please leave me a voicemail, text or email and I will do my best to get back to within 48 hours.

Individual fees - £80 - £85

Couples Counselling - £130. (limited spaces available for reduced fee, please enquire at initial consultation)

Low cost fees - £65

020 3488 4231
ENQUIRIES@SHIREENNOOR.COM

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