About

Asiyah Westcott Fernandez (MBACP, FMBPsS)
Integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist

Self-discovery, emotional resilience, and self-mastery form the foundation of mental health. Through the compassionate space of psychotherapy, we gain the clarity and courage to explore what lies beneath the surface, illuminating the hidden 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.  

Asiyah’s work is rooted in building respectful, collaborative partnerships that help you see, hear, and feel more deeply. Through this therapeutic alliance, Asiyah 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 focuses on deepening self-awareness, uncovering personal meaning, and addressing the root causes of emotional distress, anxiety, and depression for long-term healing.

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 - the brain’s ability to reorganise and create new ways of thinking and feeling. With this understanding, Asiyah’s client work aims at promoting neuroplasticity for lasting emotional growth.

Asiyah works from a non-pathologising, strengths-based perspective, viewing emotional and psychological challenges not as problems to be ‘cured’, but as opportunities for insight and growth. She helps clients recognise and build on their inherent strengths, using these inner resources to foster resilience and change.

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 mental health, Asiyah has worked across diverse 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 programmes. 

Asiyah has led groundwork initiatives to develop bespoke health and social care programmes across fourteen GP surgeries in North West London. She has also worked with leading mental health charities, including Place2Be, and served as a School Counsellor in both state and independent schools in West 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)

Full Member of the British Psychological Society (Registration Number: 799994)

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.