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Kumlaish Kumari 

CertEd, CQSW, BPhil, MA, CertEdCISD, MIHPE

Kumlaish is a highly experienced practitioner with over 30 years in the field of Social Work, Counselling and therapeutic practice, training and teaching. She began her career teaching counselling and social care at undergraduate and postgraduate level at University of Central England in the UK. As a recognised trainer and reputed therapist Kumlaish acts as a consultant informing the practice of others with her cross cultural expertise. She is also a qualified hypnotherapist and post traumatic stress counsellor.

She began her own practice in 2000 and has since worked successfully as a counsellor, family and couple therapist and NLP coach. She has a diverse client base and is sought after for her excellent interventions with clients who have struggled to achieve positive outcomes in the past. Kumlaish demonstrates a tremendous insight into human relationships and behaviour.

As an experienced Therapist/Counsellor she is able to draw from a range of different theoretical perspectives to create unique models of working which are tailored to the individual clients needs.

As a qualified Neuro-Linguistic Programming ( NLP) Master Practitioner and Hypnotherapist she prides herself in working with the whole person, in terms of their physical, mental and spiritual needs, adapting techniques from these disciplines to create the most dynamic and effective methods of intervention for her clients.

She adds to her skills tool kit with her impressive multi-lingual skills in English, Punjabi and Hindi. Kumlaish is pioneering in her work with minority ethnic communities who do not traditionally relate to counselling as a service. In her quest to make her services more accessible to them she is currently building resources to translate and adapt therapeutic tools from traditional counselling to make them applicable to different minority clients.