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About Sijal
Sijal Ansari is a Clinical Psychologist with more than five years of experience working with adults, children and adolescents. She looks at each person's story, personality and biology to make sense of current difficulties, and takes a holistic, collaborative and tailored approach.
She has a special interest in neurodiversity (autism and ADHD), complex trauma and major life transitions, including perinatal mental health. With children and adolescents she works with the family, school and wider support network so that support is consistent.
Sijal provides clinical assessments and evidence-based therapy for anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, relationship difficulties, self-esteem, substance use, OCD, perfectionism and challenging behaviour in children. She draws on CBT, ACT, schema therapy, EMDR, DBT and family systems therapy, and uses trauma-processing approaches for PTSD and complex PTSD alongside day-to-day regulation skills.
She has worked in private practice and in intensive hospital outpatient settings, and offers sessions in English, Hindi and Urdu.
Outside work Sijal hikes, gardens, crochets and sews.
