Laiqa Miriam
Qualified Integrative Therapist
Laiqa Miriam (she/her) is a Kashmiri East Londoner with over a decade of experience working in radical, social-justice-informed creative spaces. She is a researcher, designer, facilitator, and integrative therapist. She founded Red Psychotherapy in response to the limits of therapeutic neutrality in an increasingly politically fraught world. The practice offers integrative, trauma-informed psychotherapy in London, grounded in relational care, psychiatric abolition, and Indigenous and decolonial approaches to healing, working affirmatively with queer, trans, racialised, and neurodivergent communities.
About me
Her therapeutic practice took shape during the Covid-19 pandemic, a moment that clarified how psychological pain is shaped by power, privilege and oppression. While working as an Insight Consultant, she supported BAMEStream, an alliance of therapists and activists committed to centring the mental health needs of racialised communities during the crisis. This work led her into the NHS, where she has spent the past five years managing CNWL Arts in Health, a community-based mental health service supporting people living with complex trauma and enduring mental health histories across Central and North West London.
Alongside this role, she offers mental health facilitation and psychotherapy to communities who are often marginalised or excluded by mainstream services. Her recent work includes facilitating a support group for QTIPOC+ refugees and asylum seekers through Mind Islington, psychotherapy at the Rainbow Suicide Prevention Clinic for trans and non-binary young people of colour, long-term psychotherapy with FLINTA* communities in North West London, and Bereavement therapy at St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney.
My approach
I am a qualified Integrative Therapist and am currently registering with the BACP. I trained at the Minster Centre, where I am completing my MA in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, with UKCP Integrative Psychotherapist accreditation to follow on completion of my dissertation this year. My training sits within an integrative tradition that understands therapy as relational, contextual, and reciprocal, rather than bound to a single modality or methodology. I especially draw from contemporary relational psychoanalysis, parts work and attachment theory, transpersonal and existential philosophies, and trauma-conscious body psychotherapy and research.
Specialties
Methodologies
Location
1 Chingford Road, London E17
Education
Academic Training
The Minster Centre:
MA and Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (To be completed in 2026)
Diploma in Integrative Counselling
Foundation in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling
Introduction to Counselling
Clinical Training
Clinical Risk Assessment and Safety Planning
NEWS2 Patient Training Deteriorating
Emergency Life Support Training
ZSA Suicide Awareness Training
Safeguarding Children - Level 3
Safeguarding Adults - Level 3
Domestic Violence Awareness
Information Governance
Mental Health First Aid
Mental Capacity Act
Equality & Diversity
Conflict Resolution
Mental Health Law
Health & Safety
Breakaway
Laiqa Miriam
Qualified Integrative Therapist
Laiqa Miriam (she/her) is a Kashmiri East Londoner with over a decade of experience working in radical, social-justice-informed creative spaces. She is a researcher, designer, facilitator, and integrative therapist. She founded Red Psychotherapy in response to the limits of therapeutic neutrality in an increasingly politically fraught world. The practice offers integrative, trauma-informed psychotherapy in London, grounded in relational care, psychiatric abolition, and Indigenous and decolonial approaches to healing, working affirmatively with queer, trans, racialised, and neurodivergent communities.
About me
Her therapeutic practice took shape during the Covid-19 pandemic, a moment that clarified how psychological pain is shaped by power, privilege and oppression. While working as an Insight Consultant, she supported BAMEStream, an alliance of therapists and activists committed to centring the mental health needs of racialised communities during the crisis. This work led her into the NHS, where she has spent the past five years managing CNWL Arts in Health, a community-based mental health service supporting people living with complex trauma and enduring mental health histories across Central and North West London.
Alongside this role, she offers mental health facilitation and psychotherapy to communities who are often marginalised or excluded by mainstream services. Her recent work includes facilitating a support group for QTIPOC+ refugees and asylum seekers through Mind Islington, psychotherapy at the Rainbow Suicide Prevention Clinic for trans and non-binary young people of colour, long-term psychotherapy with FLINTA* communities in North West London, and Bereavement therapy at St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney.
My approach
I am a qualified Integrative Therapist and am currently registering with the BACP. I trained at the Minster Centre, where I am completing my MA in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, with UKCP Integrative Psychotherapist accreditation to follow on completion of my dissertation this year. My training sits within an integrative tradition that understands therapy as relational, contextual, and reciprocal, rather than bound to a single modality or methodology. I especially draw from contemporary relational psychoanalysis, parts work and attachment theory, transpersonal and existential philosophies, and trauma-conscious body psychotherapy and research.
Specialties
Methodologies
Location
1 Chingford Road, London E17
Education
Academic Training
The Minster Centre:
MA and Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (To be completed in 2026)
Diploma in Integrative Counselling
Foundation in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling
Introduction to Counselling
Clinical Training
Clinical Risk Assessment and Safety Planning
NEWS2 Patient Training Deteriorating
Emergency Life Support Training
ZSA Suicide Awareness Training
Safeguarding Children - Level 3
Safeguarding Adults - Level 3
Domestic Violence Awareness
Information Governance
Mental Health First Aid
Mental Capacity Act
Equality & Diversity
Conflict Resolution
Mental Health Law
Health & Safety
Breakaway
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