About

Asiyah Westcott Fernandez (mBACP, FMBPsS)
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.

Theoretical Orientation:

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, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Focused Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Narrative Therapy. Asiyah practices Child-Centred Play Therapy with younger clients.

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. 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.