Summar Ali , BACP

Summar Ali is a counsellor and psychotherapist with 11 years of experience who brings a compassionate, holistic approach to supporting people through difficult life moments. She holds membership of the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and holds a BA in Counselling and Psychotherapy along with postgraduate certificates in evidence-based interventions for children and young people and in supervisory skills. She also holds a Higher Education Fellowship and has completed continuing professional development in the neurobiology of trauma.

Her work has spanned a variety of settings, including NHS CAMHS, school counselling, drug and alcohol services, bereavement support, and sexual trauma services for a local charity. She has also taught trainees in the NHS as a lecturer at the University of Southampton and the Anna Freud Centre. In addition to online practice, she undertakes animal-assisted therapy work.

Summar draws on multiple therapeutic models to tailor support to each person’s needs, integrating evidence-based techniques with an understanding of how emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing interact. She focuses on creating an empathic environment where people can explore relationships, trauma, addiction, stress, mood concerns, identity and intimacy-related issues, parenting and family dynamics, and life transitions, with the aim of helping them make meaningful changes and find clearer ways forward.