Accreditation:

• BABCP – Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist

Qualifications:

• Post-Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapies, King's College London

• Post-Graduate Certificate in Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Interventions, University of Essex

• Msc (Conversion) Psychology, University of Nottingham

Rima is a BABCP accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with over 7 years experience working in different NHS Talking Therapies. Rima has extensive experience treating adults with OCD, Depression and Anxiety Disorders including Complex Trauma and PTSD, Health Anxiety, Social Anxiety, BDD, Emetophobia, Skin Picking Disorder and Trichotillomania.

Rima has worked with clients with various subtypes of OCD including Harm OCD, Relationship OCD, Post-natal OCD, Contamination OCD, Just-right OCD, Religious OCD and Health OCD. She provides support with understanding and reframing how you relate to the relentless demands of the OCD voice.

Rima specialises in treating clients with neurodivergence (ASD/ADHD). She is aware of how neurodivergence can interact with OCD and delivers treatment in a memorable and interactive way, actively adapting treatment to support these individual needs.

Rima creates an empathic, open space so that clients fully connect with their inner world. She facilitates clients’ understanding and processing of distressing thoughts and feelings. Rima holds compassionate space for the spectrum of our feelings, such as guilt, shame and fear that can emerge when we explore our innermost feelings.

Rima’s therapeutic approach is primarily informed by CBT principles. Rima uses Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) and adopts an integrative approach. Her approach is values driven and she incorporates ACT, CFT and distress tolerance techniques.

Rima is deeply aware of context, and how our past can influence the present. Her own British-Asian (Bengali) origins means that she has dual cultural awareness. She is culturally sensitive and fluent in spoken Bengali. She celebrates difference and appreciates the nuance of individual experiences of intersectionality. Rima strives to equip clients from all backgrounds with a personalised treatment approach and the tools required to feel empowered and cultivate lasting positive change.