I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The Astonishing Light
Of your own Being!
Hafiz
Laleh Habib Therapy
Welcome to your journey.
My goal is to walk alongside you in this journey and to provide a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space for you to explore your emotions and past experiences, learn new, healthier ways of achieving balance and regulation, and achieve personal growth as well as your individual goals.
My deepest personal experience confirms that each of us has the power to heal ourselves if provided with the right environment and resources. I am committed to meeting you where you are in your path, acknowledging the events and conditioning that have shaped you, while also looking beyond the sum total of your experiences, to the deeper essence of who you truly are. .
About Me
My name Laleh, and I am an integrative, holistic and trauma informed coach.
I have trained as a psychotherapist and counsellor in London, U.K, and as a Yoga Therapist.
I may call upon many of the different modalities I have trained in, in service to your continued growth. These include; top down approaches such as talking, dream exploration and IFS parts work, and mindfulness, meditation and somatic enquiry.
Over the past 10+ years, I have worked with clients presenting with a range of emotional problems including trauma and overwhelm, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, domestic abuse, and nervous system dysregulation.
I also have experience working with elderly and marginalised populations, including individuals affected by homelessness, through my work at a crisis centre, and at low-cost counselling services.
“What is the bravest thing you've ever said?” asked the boy.
“Help,” said the horse.
“Asking for help isn't giving up,” said the horse. “It's refusing to give up.”
Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
How I work
What happens when people open their hearts? They get better. Haruki Murakami
I believe that coaching is a shared journey, where you are the expert in your own experience, and only you can decide what is best for your life. My role is to provide a safe, non-judgemental space for you to explore your feelings and thoughts, to feel heard and seen, and to uncover who you truly are – and not just who you have had to be.
I believe in a holistic approach that includes all aspects of your life and experience, from your thinking patterns and life scripts, dreams and intuition, as well as the felt sense. I work creatively and intuitively, and may offer dream analysis, breathwork, somatic enquiry, and creative imagination exercises. The content and structure of each session may look very different and are dependent on what is most suitable and accessible in each moment, and what spontaneously and intuitively arises.
The therapeutic relationship
Know all the theories,
master all the techniques,
but as you touch a human soul,
be just another human soul.
C. G. Jung
Research indicates that it the strength of the therapeutic alliance, rather than a specific technique or approach, is the greatest indicator of success in therapy. I am committed to providing a supportive and safe environment for therapy and ask that you commit to the process as well. I use a holistic, integrative approach and endeavour to meet each client wherever they are in their journey, honouring their life experiences, while also looking beyond, to who they truly are.
Areas of focus
I work with individuals to help understand and resolve a wide range of emotional difficulties including, but not limited to, depression and anxiety; life crises and bereavement; relationship problems, trauma, attachment issues, and existential concerns. I use an integrative approach that combines various therapeutic modalities to meet you wherever you are in your journey.
Exploring our patterns and self limiting beliefs
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
T.S.Eliot
While we cannot change what has happened to us, we have the power to reshape our relationship to past experiences, to move beyond reactivity, and choose our responses in the present moment. In our sessions we may identify past patterning and life scripts and examine whether these beliefs and habits continue to serve and support us. The intention is that this can empower us to move forward in ways that are authentic and can enable us to achieve our goals.
Life’s Transitions
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Victor Frankl
Life’s transitions and crises can challenge us, stripping away our former identities and attachments, leaving us feeling ungrounded. I believe that every life crisis and transition presents as an opportunity and invitation about how to move forward in a way that is more aligned with who we are, and where we want to be. How do we move forward in a way that honours what we have experienced?
Trauma
Trauma is not what happens to you. It’s what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you. Gabor Mate
Difficult experiences in our lives can sometimes overwhelm our ability to cope and can leave deep, long-lasting imprints on our minds, often residing silently within us as trauma. Whether stemming from childhood experiences, accidents, or attachment wounds, trauma can affect how we perceive and interact with the world.
I believe that we are not defined by what happens to us, and have agency in determining how we would like to move forward. My goal is to provide a trauma-informed, safe and empathetic space to help you navigate and heal from these experiences, to process emotions, discover and strengthen resources, build a sense of security and foster resilience.