Founder, Managing Director & Psychotherapist

Thoraya Alkasab

I am a qualified Existential psychotherapist, registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

I trained in different psychotherapeutic modalities including psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, humanistic, and existential psychotherapy.

I work in private practice in London, working with clients in open-ended therapy. I have experience working with a range of difficulties, including stress, low self-esteem, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, bereavement, anger issues, obsessive-compulsive thoughts, relationship problems, abuse, difficult and painful thoughts and feelings, lack of meaning and purpose, and issues around personal development and fulfilment.

DAYS AT PRACTICE:

Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday.

Languages:

• Arabic & English.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy, from Regent's University London;

• MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling, from Regent's University London (TBA - completing in 2021);

• Post Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling, from Regent's University London;

• Foundation Certificate in Psychotherapy and Counselling, from Regent's University London;

• BSc (hons) Psychology with Human Resources from Middlesex University, Dubai.

Voluntary Positions held:

• March 2020 - present - Event Organiser for the Society for Existential Analysis

  You can learn more about the Society for Existential Analysis here.

• Feb 2017 - December 2020 - Hestia, The Grove Resource Centre - offering open-ended existential-phenomenological therapy to clients suffering from depression, anxiety, paranoia, obsessive-compulsive thoughts, relationship issues, isolation, anger issues, childhood trauma and abuse.

• June 2016 - July 2018 - Brent Bereavement Services - offering short-term existential-phenomenological therapy to clients suffering from bereavement and loss.

Who Do I work with:

• Young adults (18-24), Adults (25-64), Older Adults (65+) & Couples

TYPES OF SESSION;

• I offer open ended therapy online & by telephone.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• UKCP, Full Clinical Member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy - Reg Number 2011166135

• MBACP, Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - Reg Number 00955118

• BPS, Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society - Membership Number 348664

  I am bound by and adhere to the ethical requirements of both the BACP and UKCP, and undertake continuous CPD as required by these memberships. You can learn more about these organisations, the requirements for membership and so on, by clicking on the links above.

positions held:

• January 2018 - present - Farah Therapy & Coaching Centre - Founder, Managing Director and Psychotherapist.

• Sep 2022 - Aug 2025 - The Minster Centre - Lecturing on the Diploma Certificate course in Humanistic and Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling.

SOME of my favourite QUOTes

• “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” - Friedrich Nietzsche.

• “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity”. - Gibran Khalil.

• “Don’t be afraid; fear doesn’t ward off death, but it wards off life”. - Naguib Mahfouz.

• “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself”. - Rumi.

• “In the end, forgetting is nothing but turning a page in the book of life. It may seem an easy matter, but as long as you can’t tear it, you will keep on stumbling upon it between each season of your life”. - Nizar Qabbani.

• “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster”. - Friedrich Nietzsche.

  Email Thoraya now on: thoraya@farahtherapycentre.co.uk