About
Asiyah Westcott Fernandez (mBACP, MA, BSc)
Integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist
Self-discovery, emotional resilience and self-mastery form the cornerstones of our mental health. Psychotherapy has the power to transform lives, illuminating the darkest corners of our awareness. It is through this illumination that we can examine our past, understand ourselves more deeply, and create a new, empowered path forward.
Our need to create meaningful connections is a fundamental aspect of the human experience. Asiyah’s work is rooted in building respectful, collaborative partnerships that help you see, hear, and feel more deeply. Through this therapeutic alliance, she supports you in overcoming areas of stalled growth to help your energy to open, flourish, and thrive.
Asiyah guides you to explore thoughts, emotions, and experiences that may have once felt overwhelming or difficult to express. Her approach centres on long-term healing by deepening self-awareness, uncovering personal meaning, and addressing the root causes of emotional distress, anxiety, and depression.
Asiyah’s therapeutic orientation is integrative and is underpinned by evidence-informed modalities, from which she draws on a wide range of tools, techniques and frameworks tailored uniquely to each client. Asiyah’s work integrates:
Psychodynamic Therapy: Explores unconscious processes, early childhood experiences, and relational patterns that uncover inner conflicts and defence mechanisms.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Identifying and shifting unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns by understanding how thoughts, feelings, and actions are interconnected.
Attachment-Focused Therapy: Helps clients understand attachment dynamics and develop more secure relational patterns through attuned therapeutic connection.
Solution-Focused Therapy: Leveraging clients’ strengths and existing resources to identify practical steps towards positive change and overcoming current challenges.
Narrative Therapy: Constructing coherent and chronological narratives that integrate traumatic memories and reduce their negative impact. Narrative therapy can also facilitate cognitive restructuring, helping individuals challenge and change negative beliefs and assumptions born from trauma.
Play Therapy: Engages children and young people through metaphor and symbolic expression, creating space to explore complex feelings non-verbally. Play has the essential characteristic of honouring the child’s emotional world and private logic while simultaneously providing the conditions to author a healthier, more adaptive narrative.
Unpinning all training and approaches is a deep appreciation for the brain’s neuroplasticity. Asiyah integrates neuroscience to design interventions that foster new neural pathways, promoting neuroplasticity.
Asiyah views clinical diagnoses and other psychological problems should not merely be recognised as symptoms to be ‘cured’, but as messages from the unconscious that, if addressed with insight and careful supervision, point the way to a more fulfilling life.
Outside of therapeutic work (and no doubt influencing it), Asiyah has interests in endurance athletics, religion, and philosophy.
Work experience:
With over a decade of experience in the mental health field, Asiyah has worked across a broad range of NHS settings, including Tier 4 inpatient units, child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), eating disorder services, psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs), and community rehabilitation programs.
Asiyah has also led groundwork initiatives to develop bespoke health and social care programs across fourteen GP surgeries in North West London. Asiyah has also worked with leading mental health charities such as Place2Be, and as a School Counsellor in both state schools and various elite independent schools in London.
At present, Asiyah focuses on specialised Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults. With a systemic approach in mind, Asiyah also provides workshops, parent coaching and mentorship. Asiyah also collaborates with leading psychotherapists and psychologists across the UK to drive innovation in psychology and its integration with technology.
Qualifications and Registrations:
Individual Registered Member British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) (Registration Number: 412681)
MA Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Families (Hons)
BSc Psychology (Hons)
All psychotherapeutic services are delivered under the supervision of a registered Psychologist or Psychotherapist, as required by regulatory guidelines.