Rosemin Shariff, BACP

Rosemin Shariff is an accredited counsellor based in London with two decades of professional experience supporting adults through a wide range of difficulties. She specialises in grief and loss, depression, navigating life changes, stress and anxiety, addictions, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career matters and compassion fatigue, and she also has a focused interest in hospice and end-of-life counselling and multicultural concerns.

She brings a culturally sensitive perspective to her work, informed both by professional practice and personal experience of South Asian British family dynamics. Much of her clinical work has involved supporting South Asian British adults and families through generational and cultural tensions, and she aims to bridge personal cultural knowledge with clinical practice to increase representation and understanding within mental health services.

Her practice history spans a variety of settings, including the NHS, local health centres, community mental health agencies, addiction projects, mosques and day treatment facilities. She has substantial experience in home-visiting bereavement counselling, which formed the basis of her master’s research, and she has provided both individual and some family therapy across these services.

Professionally, she holds a Master’s degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy completed in 2007 and is accredited in the UK. On joining the NHS in 2012 she became a certified Counselling for Depression practitioner, and she later qualified in Interpersonal Psychotherapy to support people with mild to moderate depression. She is also a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

Her clinical approach is grounded in person-centred and humanistic values, with influences from structural and emotional freedom frameworks. She prioritises meeting people where they are and tailoring the therapeutic process to individual goals, whether the focus is insight, symptom relief or improved everyday functioning. Rosemin emphasises compassion, respect and warmth within the therapeutic relationship and supports people to draw on their own strengths as they work toward a more fulfilling life.