Layla — Integrative Counsellor in Carshalton, Surrey (Currently Online)
At a Glance
- Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
- Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
- Individual counselling · EAP counselling
- Integrative approach: Person-Centred, Humanistic, Psychodynamic, CBT
- Based in Carshalton, Surrey — currently online and telephone UK-wide
- Adults (18+) · Older adults · EAP clients · Inclusive and affirming practice
- Over a decade of frontline experience in the care sector
- Specialist experience: domestic abuse and trauma support (Hestia Women’s Refuge)
- £65 per session
- Daytime and evenings
- Free 15-minute consultation — no commitment, no pressure
Layla’s Approach
“You don’t have to carry things alone. I offer a space where your experiences are honoured, your voice is heard, and your story is met with care. Together, we can explore what’s brought you here and work towards greater clarity, strength, and emotional balance.”
Online Counselling from Carshalton, Surrey — About Layla
Some experiences are hard to put into words. Some have been carried for so long that it can feel difficult to imagine putting them down. Whether you are navigating the aftermath of something difficult, living with the weight of anxiety or low mood, or simply reaching a point where you know you need support — there is space here for that.
Layla is a qualified integrative counsellor based in Carshalton, Surrey, currently offering online and telephone counselling to adults across the UK. She holds a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Her integrative approach draws on Person-Centred, Humanistic, Psychodynamic, and CBT frameworks — tailoring her work to what is most useful for each individual.
Layla brings over a decade of frontline experience in the care sector alongside her clinical training. This background — working with people navigating Alzheimer’s, complex emotional needs, and re-entry after prison — has given her a depth of compassion, cultural sensitivity, and adaptability that informs every session she offers.
Background & Experience
Before training as a counsellor, Layla spent over a decade working in frontline care — supporting individuals with Alzheimer’s, complex behavioural needs, and the particular challenges of re-entry into community life after prison. This experience gave her a grounding in compassion under pressure, cultural sensitivity, and the kind of steady, non-judgmental presence that complex human situations require.
Layla has particular specialist experience in domestic abuse and trauma support, developed through her clinical placement with Hestia Women’s Domestic Abuse Refuge. There she provided both face-to-face and online therapy to women navigating recovery from domestic violence — working with trauma and PTSD, anxiety, identity disruption, and attachment wounds. Her role included risk assessment, safeguarding, and multi-agency advocacy, collaborating with legal professionals, housing officers, and statutory services to support her clients’ broader wellbeing.
This experience has given Layla a depth of understanding of what trauma does — how it lives in the body, how it shapes identity and relationships, and what it takes to begin to process it. She brings this understanding to all her counselling work, not only with clients who have experienced domestic abuse.
Layla is committed to inclusive, affirming, trauma-informed practice. She has worked with people from a wide range of backgrounds and identities — including those with disabilities, individuals navigating the justice system, and people living with complex emotional or physical needs. She engages in regular professional supervision and is committed to reflective, ongoing learning.
Therapeutic Approaches
Layla draws on four therapeutic frameworks, integrating them according to what is most useful for each individual.
Person-Centred Therapy
At the heart of Layla’s practice is a Person-Centred foundation — a deep respect for each person’s own capacity for understanding and growth. This approach creates a non-judgmental, empathetic space where you can explore your experiences at your own pace, without pressure and without agenda. Layla offers unconditional positive regard, empathy, and genuineness in every session — the conditions that allow real self-exploration to take place. This approach is particularly important in her work with trauma survivors and those who have experienced disempowerment or loss of safety.
Humanistic Principles
Closely related to the Person-Centred approach, humanistic principles bring attention to the whole person — not just symptoms or difficulties, but strengths, values, and the capacity for self-determination. Layla’s humanistic foundation helps clients build self-awareness, emotional resilience, and a clearer sense of personal empowerment — particularly for those whose confidence in themselves has been damaged by past experiences.
Psychodynamic Insights
Layla draws on psychodynamic thinking to help clients understand how early life experiences and unconscious patterns continue to influence their present thoughts, feelings, and relationships. This approach can be particularly illuminating for understanding recurring relational dynamics, strong emotional reactions, or a persistent sense of being stuck. Bringing these patterns into awareness — within the safety of the therapeutic relationship — can open up new possibilities for how to respond.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT offers practical tools for managing anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and emotional overwhelm — exploring the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and developing more helpful patterns of responding. Layla integrates CBT within her broader approach particularly where clients want structured, skills-focused support alongside deeper relational and exploratory work. Online CBT counselling is available across the UK.
Areas of Focus
Layla offers online and telephone counselling from Carshalton, Surrey, to adults across the UK. The following are areas she works with regularly and has specific experience in.
Trauma and domestic abuse
Layla has specialist clinical experience supporting survivors of domestic abuse and violence, developed through her placement with Hestia Women’s Domestic Abuse Refuge. Trauma counselling online with Layla is paced carefully, with close attention to emotional safety throughout. Whether you are dealing with something recent or something that has stayed with you for a long time, there is space here to begin to explore it. Domestic abuse counselling online and trauma counselling online UK with Layla is available to adults across the UK.
Anxiety and stress
If anxiety has been making daily life feel harder — through worry that won’t switch off, panic, physical symptoms, or persistent overwhelm — online counselling with Layla can offer a space to understand what is driving it and develop a different relationship with it. Layla draws on CBT tools and Person-Centred exploration depending on what is most useful. Anxiety counselling online is available across the UK.
Depression and low mood
Persistent low mood, loss of motivation, a sense of disconnection, or the quiet weight of hopelessness — depression can take many forms and can be hard to ask for help with. Layla works gently alongside people experiencing depression and low mood, without pressure and without judgment. Depression counselling online is available to adults across the UK.
Grief and loss
Grief counselling online with Layla offers a space for whatever loss looks like for you — whether the death of someone close, the end of a relationship, or the loss of a sense of who you were or who your life was going to be. There is no right way to grieve and no timetable. Layla offers compassionate, non-judgmental support to those navigating bereavement and loss online across the UK.
Self-esteem, shame and identity
Chronic self-criticism, shame, low self-worth, and questions of identity — including cultural identity, sexual identity, and the experience of navigating intersecting aspects of who you are — are areas Layla works with regularly. She brings genuine cultural sensitivity and intersectional awareness to this work, and creates an inclusive, affirming space for identity exploration online across the UK.
Relationships and interpersonal difficulties
Difficult patterns in personal, romantic, or professional relationships — recurring conflict, communication breakdown, the aftermath of betrayal, or the loneliness of not feeling truly seen. Layla works with individuals exploring relational difficulties of all kinds through online counselling UK.
Life transitions
Major life changes — redundancy, separation, the end of a relationship, shifts in identity or sense of direction — can leave you needing a space to make sense of where you are. Layla offers online counselling for adults navigating life transitions across the UK.
Sessions with Layla
Layla is based in Carshalton, Surrey and is currently offering online counselling via video and telephone counselling to adults across the UK. Sessions are available during the day and in the evenings, offering flexibility for those with work or other commitments.
Layla also works with clients accessing counselling through EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) arrangements and welcomes referrals from workplace wellbeing programmes alongside private clients.
Sessions are 50 minutes. Layla works with individuals on either a short-term or longer-term basis depending on what you are bringing and what feels right. Whether you are looking for focused support around a specific issue or a longer period of exploratory counselling, Layla will work with you to find a pace and structure that fits.
Sessions are confidential. There are limited circumstances in which this may need to change — for example, if there is a serious risk of harm to you or others. Layla will explain these clearly before any work begins.
Location — Currently Online
Layla is based in Carshalton, Surrey and is currently offering online and telephone counselling only. All sessions take place via secure video or telephone — there are no face-to-face sessions currently available.
Online counselling is available to anyone across the UK. If you are based near Carshalton or in the surrounding area of Surrey and south London, the following gives you a sense of the areas Layla draws clients from — though her online sessions are open to anyone, regardless of where you are based.
| Sutton | 2 mins |
| Wallington | 5 mins |
| Cheam | 8 mins |
| Morden | 10 mins |
| Croydon | 10 mins |
| Mitcham | 12 mins |
| Banstead | 12 mins |
| Epsom | 15 mins |
| Wimbledon | 15 mins |
| Kingston upon Thames | 20 mins |
Journey times shown are approximate travel times from each location to Carshalton. All sessions with Layla are currently online or by telephone — no travel is required. Online counselling is available to anyone across the UK.
Layla’s online counselling is particularly popular with clients based in Sutton, Croydon, and Epsom — and with adults anywhere across the UK who prefer the flexibility and accessibility of online therapy.
Fees
- Individual sessions: £65 per session
As part of Hope Therapy’s team of 90+ qualified counsellors, Layla is matched to clients where there is a strong therapeutic fit. Online counselling with Hope Therapy starts from £65 — significantly more accessible than many comparable private practices.
Book a Free Consultation
If you would like to access online or telephone counselling from anywhere in the UK, a free 15-minute consultation is a good place to start. There is no commitment and no pressure — just a chance to ask questions and find out whether Layla is the right fit for you.
Hope Therapy’s team is also available by phone 24 hours a day if you would prefer to speak to someone before booking.
Book your free consultation: https://calendly.com/hopetherapy/15-minute-consultation
More Info
| Qualifications | Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (⚠ VERIFY: awarding institution and year) |
| Professional membership | Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) |
| NCPS | Hope Therapy & Counselling Services is an Organisational Member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) |
| Services | Individual counselling · EAP counselling |
| Therapeutic approaches | Person-Centred Therapy · Humanistic · Psychodynamic · Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) |
| Session format | Online (video) · Telephone — UK-wide |
| Session length | 50 minutes |
| Availability | Daytime · Evenings |
| Fee | £65 per session |
| Base location | Carshalton, Surrey (currently online only) |
| Languages | English |
| Last reviewed | April 2026 |
| Booking | https://calendly.com/hopetherapy/15-minute-consultation |
Further Areas Layla Works With
- Abortion counselling online
- Abuse counselling online — domestic, emotional, physical, sexual
- Affairs and betrayals — counselling online
- Anger management counselling online
- Anxiety counselling online UK
- Attachment counselling online
- Bereavement counselling online UK
- Bullying counselling online
- Carer support counselling online
- Cultural and intersectional counselling online UK
- Depression counselling online UK
- Discrimination counselling online
- Domestic abuse counselling online UK
- Domestic violence counselling online UK
- EAP counselling online UK
- Emotional abuse counselling online
- Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) counselling online
- Grief counselling online UK
- Health anxiety counselling online
- Identity counselling online UK
- Infertility counselling online
- Inner child counselling online
- LGBTQIA+ affirming counselling online UK
- Life transitions counselling online UK
- Loneliness counselling online
- Low self-confidence counselling online
- Low self-esteem counselling online UK
- Miscarriage counselling online
- OCD counselling online
- Panic attacks counselling online
- Passive-aggressive behaviour counselling online
- Phobia counselling online
- Physical abuse counselling online
- Postnatal depression counselling online
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) counselling online
- Redundancy counselling online
- Relationship difficulties counselling online UK
- SAD — seasonal affective disorder counselling online
- Separation and divorce counselling online
- Separation anxiety counselling online
- Sexual abuse counselling online
- Sexuality counselling online — affirming
- Shame counselling online
- Social anxiety counselling online
- Spirituality counselling online
- Stress counselling online UK
- Trauma counselling online UK
- Work-related stress counselling online
- Listing ID: 1155
- Type of Support: CBT Counselling, Counselling, Emotion Freedom Technique
- Types of Counselling: Adults (18+)
- Type of Session: Online (Via Zoom & Skype), Phone
- Availability: Daytime, Evening