Karima El Haddad

Karima El Haddad is an integrative and humanistic psychotherapist with over 18 years of experience in outreach support and family coordination. With her extensive background and personal understanding of mental health challenges, she truly believes in the transformative power of therapy.

Her approach is to provide compassionate, personalised care, recognising the uniqueness of each person’s experiences and challenges. She creates a safe, non-judgemental space where you can explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.

Karima specialises in perinatal support for individuals and couples navigating the complexities of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood. She understands the mix of excitement and stress during these times and am here to offer emotional support and guidance. She firmly believes in the therapeutic relationship’s ability to foster healing and growth. Her goal is to build a collaborative, trusting bond where you feel seen, heard, and understood.

In addition to her psychotherapy practice, she is also a parenting practitioner. Karima has years of experience working with perinatal teams, children’s services, and organisations that support families with children under 5. She also has extensive experience working with precarious trauma, supporting individuals who work with children fleeing war and domestic violence victims.

In her therapy work Karima uses the following modalities:

• Transactional Analysis: I use all TA tools to help clients understand their interpersonal communication and relationship dynamics by exploring their Parent, Adult, and Child ego states.
• Humanistic and Integrative Approach: I focus on the whole person, valuing their unique experiences and traits. By integrating various therapeutic techniques, I provide personalised and holistic care tailored to each client’s needs.
• Attachment-Based Therapy: I build or rebuild trusting, supportive relationships to address mental health conditions like anxiety and depression, emphasising the importance of secure attachments in emotional development.
• Trauma-Informed Practice: I ensure physical, psychological, and emotional safety by understanding clients’ histories and the root causes of their distress. This approach addresses trauma symptoms and fosters long-term healing and resilience.