About me

I am Sade, a psychotherapist, and the owner of Simi Sara. 

As a Nigerian therapist with my professional training and experience in the UK, my work is rooted in a deep understanding of cultural sensitivity and understanding. I work with individuals who are experiencing challenges such as stress, sadness and low mood, relationship issues including relationship breakdown, infidelity, stuckness and separation, attachment difficulties, fear of abandonment, insecurity and self-doubt, unresolved childhood issues, family problems, unhealthy behaviours and personal development struggles. 

My approach is non-judgmental and curious, exploring the patterns of your life experience and your emotions to help you gain greater insight into yourself, develop healthier coping strategies, and work towards a life you desire. 

I have a deep interest in how we come to feel the way we do and a desire to help people live in the way that is fulfilling. My personal philosophy stems from the belief that we humans are thinking, feeling, desiring beings and that to be fully alive, we deserve to think our own thoughts, feel our own emotions and be accepted in our own way. I believe that we can make change if we so desire and live more purposeful lives, where we can.

Simi Sara is a phrase that translates from the Yoruba language as 'Relax into Self'. This means that with me, I will support you in knowing yourself better so that you can live easier in the life that you have and reach for a better one if you choose. 

I will help you look at your difficulties through the lens of their origins so that you can find ways of gaining healing. 

We will look at the areas you desire change in and we will find ways of making progress. 

I will hear you, be curious about you and hold your secrets dear. 

I support individuals, groups, teams and organisations.

Make contact, let us begin. 

Masters - Integrative Psychotherapy

Masters - Environmental Management

Post-Graduate Diploma Integrative Counselling

City & Guilds - Managing the Delivery of Services to Customers (Operational Delivery)

UKCP - Accredited Psychotherapist

UPCA - Accredited Member (MUPCA)

BACP - Member (MBACP)

Additional Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

(Some of the additional learning and training I have undertaken) 

• Therapeutic groupwork

• Safeguarding Adults - Birmingham Newman University

• Working towards wellbeing in the workplace - Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

• Narcissism: Working with Grandiosity, Arrogance, and Exaggerated Self Importance - CONFER

• Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression Training (PCE-CFD) - British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP

• Walk and Talk Professional Practice (Therapy outdoors) - Transactional Analysis Central Training Association TACTA

• TA101: Transactional Analysis -  Transactional Analysis Central Training Association TACTA

• The Lure of sameness, the pain of difference: The role of friendship in identity formation - West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy WMIP

• Avoidant Attachment - The Defence Against Intimacy - CONFER

• Shame as a Cause of Psychological Disturbance - West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy WMIP

• Body Talk: Working with the unspoken: When talking is not enough - The Mind Movement

• Multimedia Clinical Work - Birmingham Newman University

• Brain to Brain communication - Birmingham Newman University

• Leadership & Management

• Working with bereavement and complex grief - British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP

• Addiction: a search for a secure base - British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP

• Train the trainers - British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP

• How to lift depression - Human Givens

• The Inside of Autism - Working with people who are Autistic

• Working with Eating Disorders

• Disordered Eating and Body Image Disturbance in the Military

• Brief Psychodynamic Therapy for Substance abuse

• Perspectives on Trauma

• Mental Health First Aid