Rosemin Shariff

Rosemin Shariff is an accredited counsellor based in London with 20 years of professional experience supporting adults with a wide range of presenting issues. She has particular expertise in grief and loss, depression, coping with life changes, relationship and family difficulties, anxiety, stress, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, parenting, anger, self-esteem and career-related challenges.

She approaches therapy with sensitivity to multi- and cross-cultural factors, drawing on considerable clinical experience with South Asian British families and adults. That experience is informed by her own familiarity with generational and cultural differences within a family made up of immigrants and first- and second-generation British Asians. She aims to bring greater intersection between personal knowledge of eastern cultures and her professional mental health practice.

Her work has taken place across a variety of settings, including the NHS, local health centres, community mental health agencies, addiction projects, mosques and day treatment facilities, and has included individual and some family therapy. She has extensive experience in home-visiting counselling for bereaved people, which formed the basis of her masters research.

She holds a Masters degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy, completed in 2007. On joining the NHS in 2012 she became a certified Counselling for Depression (CfD) practitioner, and more recently she qualified in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) to support people with mild to moderate depression.

Rosemin describes the therapeutic relationship as shaped by compassion, respect and warmth. Her practice is influenced by Person-Centred and Humanistic approaches alongside structural and emotional freedom systems. A core priority is to meet clients where they are and adapt the approach to what will work best as she and the client collaborate toward their goals. Whether the focus is insight and personal growth or symptom relief and improved functioning, she seeks to support and empower clients as they take steps toward a more fulfilling life.

She believes that people bring strengths from their life stories and closest relationships, and that change takes courage and commitment. If someone is ready to begin that work, Rosemin is available to support them through the process.