Summar Ali , BACP

Summar Ali is a UK-based therapist with 11 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship difficulties, trauma, depression and a wide range of life challenges. She offers a compassionate, nonjudgmental approach that aims to help clients make sense of painful experiences and build practical skills for everyday life. Summar draws on training in therapies that attend to thoughts, emotions and relationships, and she frames therapy as a collaborative process that respects each person’s pace and priorities.

Her background spans work in NHS CAMHS, school counselling, drug and alcohol services, bereavement support and sexual trauma work with a local charity, giving her experience with children, young people and adults in different settings. She has also lectured at the University of Southampton and the Anna Freud Centre, contributing to the training of NHS practitioners. In addition to her online practice, Summar works as an animal-assisted therapist, bringing alternative ways of connecting and healing into therapeutic work.

Summar’s qualifications include a BA in Counselling and Psychotherapy, postgraduate certificates in evidence-based interventions for children and young people’s mental health and in supervisory skills, a higher education certificate in academic practice with fellowship status, and ongoing CPD in the neurobiology of trauma. She also holds BACP credentials. Her clinical focus covers areas such as grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting and family concerns, ADHD and neurodiversity, codependency and attachment difficulties, as well as coaching and support for coping with life changes.