Trainee CBT Therapist
Noareen Alyas
Noareen has worked with children, adolescents and families in London for many years. She has valuable experience in Education and has extended her existing knowledge through further training within the field of Psychology. Some of this knowledge involved working with vulnerable Adolescents and children with Special Educational Needs (SEND). Her role entailed implementing changes within schools.
Noareen has worked in the NHS as a trainee CBT Therapist for 3 years and uses her Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) skills to assess, diagnose and treat clients with various mental health difficulties. Due to her experience within the SEND sector, she is confident in working with clients who present with social communication difficulties such as neurodevelopment disorders (ADHD and ASD).
She has worked with various age groups ranging from young adolescents to adults. Her greater knowledge of different cultures and religions help her understand how these affect our beliefs and assumptions and make her a naturally empathetic therapist. Having completed research based on the cultural model she is flexible in offering the most suitable treatment in accordance to each client's needs. Along with CBT skills she also uses mindfulness in her therapeutic work. She engages clients to adapt their cognitions and behaviours to manage their difficulties and move towards their goals.
Noareen has a warm personality that will make you feel at ease. Her clients have described therapy with her as life-changing and as highly valuing her CBT approach. She combines her CBT tools with a more person-centred approach to therapy and her method has proved successful in supporting clients into recovery.
Noareen is experienced in working with the following disorders:
- Depression (including Low self-esteem, feeling worthless and improving assertiveness)
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Worry and the uncertainty of intolerance)
- Panic Disorder
- Health Anxiety
- Phobias of all different types including Emetophobia (vomit phobia) and blood or injection phobia.
- Social Anxiety (in social environments or when delivering speeches in public)
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder