Laiqa Miriam
Registered Integrative Therapist [MBACP]
People who find their way to me are often highly self-aware. They have read the books, done the journalling, perhaps they even felt “too smart” for their previous therapist - and still find themselves caught in familiar patterns.
They may be living with chronic anxiety, relational exhaustion, or a quiet grief about the state of the world alongside more intimate losses. Some are navigating loss of agency, difficulty with boundaries, deep isolation, or the persistent feeling of not quite fitting anywhere.
Perhaps they have spent years feeling like "too much" - too sensitive, too intense, too easily overwhelmed by what others seem to move through effortlessly. If they identify as highly sensitive or neurodivergent, they may have learnt how to mask, modulate, or manage a nervous system that was never disordered - only finely tuned, in a world that was not built for it.
Others are exploring questions of sexuality and gender, attachment, meaning and purpose, or the cumulative strain of living under intersecting crises - institutionalised patriarchy, racial capitalism, ecological collapse, ongoing genocides.
Many carry wounds that did not begin with them; ancestral grief and transgenerational trauma. The residue of displacement, colonial violence, interrupted lineages of knowing. These live in the body and in patterns of relating, often long before language arrives.
You do not need fixing. You need space to feel, to grieve, to think, and to rest - without being asked to harden, shrink, mask or perform.
About me
I began my clinical training at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic - a time that exposed what many already knew: psychological pain is not an personal failure. It is shaped by who we are, where we come from, what systems we live inside, and what those systems have taken from us. As a Kashmiri East Londoner, this has never been abstract for me, it is the ground I stand on.
I founded Red Psychotherapy after a decade of working as a researcher, designer, and facilitator in radical, creative, and community-led spaces. Therapy felt like a continuation of that work - another way of tending to the communities I care about and to the conditions that shape their suffering and experiences.
My clinical work spans NHS acute and secondary community mental health services, hospice care, and specialist services for marginalised communities. I work as an embodied and relational therapist, attending not only to narrative but to what happens in the body, the nervous system, and the space between us. Therapy is collaborative and paced; we work with patterns as they emerge in real time - especially attachment, our internal parts, and survival strategies that once made sense and may no longer serve.
I have often worked at the edges of society with complex trauma, exile and displacement, suicidality and self-harm, structural violence, chronic illness and disability, grief and bereavements, and long-term relational wounds. My work is grounded in steady relational presence with experiences that are layered, embodied, and often difficult to put in words.
My approach
My approach is grounded in an ethic of care that resists punitive, pathologising, and carceral logics. I understand distress as shaped by power - by race, gender, class, disability, migration, and the histories we inherit - drawing from critical race theory, queer and trans-inclusive gender studies, disability justice and Mad studies, and Marxist-feminist analyses of care and harm.
At the heart of my practice is re-indigenisation - a return to relational, ancestral, and communal ways of healing that Eurocentric, individualised models of care have long displaced. These frameworks are not abstract positions for me; they shape how I listen, how I understand suffering, and how we imagine change together. Because of this, I particularly welcome:
- Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour, and diasporic communities
- LGBTQIA+ communities, particularly QTIPOC+, trans, and non-binary people
- Neurodiverse, chronically ill and Disabled communities
- Migrants, refugees, and those navigating asylum systems
- People impacted by poverty, precarity, or housing insecurity
- Carers, including young carers and those parentified early
- Those harmed by psychiatric, medical, or carceral systems
- Creatives, activists, and those engaged in emotionally demanding work
Specialties
Methodologies
Location
195 Wood Street, London E17 3NU
Education
I am a Qualified Integrative Therapist and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy [MBACP]. I trained at the Minster Centre, where I completed my Diploma in Counselling, and am currently finalising my MA in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling. UKCP accreditation as an Integrative Psychotherapist will follow on completion of my dissertation this year.
My training sits within an integrative tradition, meaning I have trained across a range of therapeutic modalities and approaches rather than a single model. These include contemporary relational psychoanalysis, attachment theory, internal family systems and parts work, somatic and body-based therapies, trauma-conscious neuroscience, transpersonal and existential approaches, and nervous system-informed practice and epigenetics research.
Before training as a therapist, I spent over a decade working as a researcher, designer, and facilitator in radical, social-justice informed creative spaces. My clinical experience spans the NHS, community mental health, hospice care, and specialist services for marginalised communities. This includes five years as manager of CNWL Arts in Health at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, a community-based mental health service for people living with complex trauma and enduring mental health histories.
Alongside this, I have provided psychotherapy at the Rainbow Suicide Prevention Clinic for trans and non-binary young people of colour, facilitated support groups for QTIPOC+ refugees and asylum seekers through Mind Islington, offered long-term psychotherapy with FLINTA* communities in North West London, and provided bereavement therapy at St Joseph's Hospice in Hackney.
Accreditation
GB_BACP 418472
Laiqa Miriam
Registered Integrative Therapist [MBACP]
People who find their way to me are often highly self-aware. They have read the books, done the journalling, perhaps they even felt “too smart” for their previous therapist - and still find themselves caught in familiar patterns.
They may be living with chronic anxiety, relational exhaustion, or a quiet grief about the state of the world alongside more intimate losses. Some are navigating loss of agency, difficulty with boundaries, deep isolation, or the persistent feeling of not quite fitting anywhere.
Perhaps they have spent years feeling like "too much" - too sensitive, too intense, too easily overwhelmed by what others seem to move through effortlessly. If they identify as highly sensitive or neurodivergent, they may have learnt how to mask, modulate, or manage a nervous system that was never disordered - only finely tuned, in a world that was not built for it.
Others are exploring questions of sexuality and gender, attachment, meaning and purpose, or the cumulative strain of living under intersecting crises - institutionalised patriarchy, racial capitalism, ecological collapse, ongoing genocides.
Many carry wounds that did not begin with them; ancestral grief and transgenerational trauma. The residue of displacement, colonial violence, interrupted lineages of knowing. These live in the body and in patterns of relating, often long before language arrives.
You do not need fixing. You need space to feel, to grieve, to think, and to rest - without being asked to harden, shrink, mask or perform.
About me
I began my clinical training at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic - a time that exposed what many already knew: psychological pain is not an personal failure. It is shaped by who we are, where we come from, what systems we live inside, and what those systems have taken from us. As a Kashmiri East Londoner, this has never been abstract for me, it is the ground I stand on.
I founded Red Psychotherapy after a decade of working as a researcher, designer, and facilitator in radical, creative, and community-led spaces. Therapy felt like a continuation of that work - another way of tending to the communities I care about and to the conditions that shape their suffering and experiences.
My clinical work spans NHS acute and secondary community mental health services, hospice care, and specialist services for marginalised communities. I work as an embodied and relational therapist, attending not only to narrative but to what happens in the body, the nervous system, and the space between us. Therapy is collaborative and paced; we work with patterns as they emerge in real time - especially attachment, our internal parts, and survival strategies that once made sense and may no longer serve.
I have often worked at the edges of society with complex trauma, exile and displacement, suicidality and self-harm, structural violence, chronic illness and disability, grief and bereavements, and long-term relational wounds. My work is grounded in steady relational presence with experiences that are layered, embodied, and often difficult to put in words.
My approach
My approach is grounded in an ethic of care that resists punitive, pathologising, and carceral logics. I understand distress as shaped by power - by race, gender, class, disability, migration, and the histories we inherit - drawing from critical race theory, queer and trans-inclusive gender studies, disability justice and Mad studies, and Marxist-feminist analyses of care and harm.
At the heart of my practice is re-indigenisation - a return to relational, ancestral, and communal ways of healing that Eurocentric, individualised models of care have long displaced. These frameworks are not abstract positions for me; they shape how I listen, how I understand suffering, and how we imagine change together. Because of this, I particularly welcome:
- Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour, and diasporic communities
- LGBTQIA+ communities, particularly QTIPOC+, trans, and non-binary people
- Neurodiverse, chronically ill and Disabled communities
- Migrants, refugees, and those navigating asylum systems
- People impacted by poverty, precarity, or housing insecurity
- Carers, including young carers and those parentified early
- Those harmed by psychiatric, medical, or carceral systems
- Creatives, activists, and those engaged in emotionally demanding work
Specialties
Methodologies
Location
195 Wood Street, London E17 3NU
Education
I am a Qualified Integrative Therapist and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy [MBACP]. I trained at the Minster Centre, where I completed my Diploma in Counselling, and am currently finalising my MA in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling. UKCP accreditation as an Integrative Psychotherapist will follow on completion of my dissertation this year.
My training sits within an integrative tradition, meaning I have trained across a range of therapeutic modalities and approaches rather than a single model. These include contemporary relational psychoanalysis, attachment theory, internal family systems and parts work, somatic and body-based therapies, trauma-conscious neuroscience, transpersonal and existential approaches, and nervous system-informed practice and epigenetics research.
Before training as a therapist, I spent over a decade working as a researcher, designer, and facilitator in radical, social-justice informed creative spaces. My clinical experience spans the NHS, community mental health, hospice care, and specialist services for marginalised communities. This includes five years as manager of CNWL Arts in Health at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, a community-based mental health service for people living with complex trauma and enduring mental health histories.
Alongside this, I have provided psychotherapy at the Rainbow Suicide Prevention Clinic for trans and non-binary young people of colour, facilitated support groups for QTIPOC+ refugees and asylum seekers through Mind Islington, offered long-term psychotherapy with FLINTA* communities in North West London, and provided bereavement therapy at St Joseph's Hospice in Hackney.
Accreditation
GB_BACP 418472
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