About

Asiyah Westcott Fernandez (mBACP, MA, BSc)
Integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist

I am an integrative psychotherapist with extensive experience working in acute mental health settings, specialising in therapeutic support for children and adolescents. I offer a compassionate, collaborative approach tailored to each client’s unique needs and circumstances.

I see psychotherapy as a respectful partnership between therapist and client. Within a safe and confidential space, clients are supported to explore thoughts, emotions, and experiences that may have previously felt overwhelming or difficult to express. My work centres on long-term healing through deepening self-awareness, uncovering meaning, and addressing the root causes of emotional distress, anxiety, and depression.

My therapeutic orientation is integrative and draws on a range of evidence-based and evidence-informed modalities. My work integrates:

• Psychodynamic Therapy
  Focuses on unconscious processes, early childhood experiences, and relational patterns that shape emotional life and behaviour.

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
  Supports clients in 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, healthy relational patterns through attuned, therapeutic connection.

• Solution-Focused Therapy
  Builds on clients’ strengths and existing resources to identify practical steps toward positive change and resolution of current challenges.

• Narrative Therapy
  By constructing a coherent and chronological narrative, individuals can process and integrate traumatic memories, reducing their impact on their overall sense of self. Narrative therapy can also facilitate cognitive restructuring, helping individuals challenge and change negative beliefs and assumptions that may have arisen in the wake of the trauma. 

• Play Therapy
  Engages children and young people through metaphor and symbolic expression, creating space to explore complex feelings non-verbally.

I support clients across a broad range of presentations, including developmental trauma, neurodiversity, and acute mental health issues. I work with children, adolescents, and adults, offering both short- and long-term therapy depending on each individual’s needs and therapeutic goals.

Work experience:

Asiyah has over a decade’s worth of experience in the mental health field. Asiyah has worked in Tier 4 inpatient mental health settings, children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), eating disorder services, Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs), primary care, and community rehabilitation.

Asiyah also led groundwork initiatives to establish bespoke health and social programmes across numerous GP surgeries in West London. Asiyah's background also includes work with leading mental health charities such as Place2Be and various roles as a School Counsellor, providing support to both marginalised communities and privileged clientele.

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.