Meet Sade Solarin
Meet Sade Solarin
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Psychotherapist, counsellor, group facilitator and founder of Simi Sara.
Psychotherapist, counsellor, group facilitator and founder of Simi Sara.
Holding space for life’s heavy moments and offering a restorative space with warmth, insight, and care.
Holding space for life’s heavy moments and offering a restorative space with warmth, insight, and care.
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 deepening your self-awareness, so you can move through life with greater ease and clarity, and pursue the type of future you choose.
About me
About me
I am Sade, an experienced therapist and counsellor who supports individuals, couples, and teams navigating the emotional weight of life, ambition, identity and relationship dynamics.
I created Simi Sara as a place where people can be fully seen, learn about themselves and receive support while being stretched in ways that feel safe and intentional.
I am Nigerian and my work is rooted in a deep understanding of cultural sensitivity and understanding. I am especially passionate about supporting people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds living in the UK and Europe as well as in Africa where we are a majority. I work with individuals who are experiencing challenges such as stress, life transition, 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.
My aim is to 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, couples, groups, and teams.
Professional Memberships
UKCP - Accredited Psychotherapist
UPCA - Full Clinical Member - Accredited (MUPCA)
BACP - Member (MBACP)
Qualifications, accreditation, courses
Qualifications, accreditation, courses
Masters - Integrative Psychotherapy
Masters - Environmental Management
Post-Graduate Diploma Integrative Counselling
City & Guilds - Managing the Delivery of Services to Customers (Operational Delivery)
Additional Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
(Some of the additional learning and training I have undertaken)
Therapeutic groupwork
Couple and Intimate Relationship Therapy - The Grove
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
"Outside of therapy, I love being in the forest, growing plants and tending gardens. I split my time between UK and Nigeria and I carry both cultures into how I listen, speak and make meaning." - Sade
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