Aniqa Ahmed

I’m a Trainee Counselling Psychologist, Integrative Therapist, and Founder of Disabled Voices CIC, with a strong interest in mental health, disability justice, accessibility, trauma-informed care, and social change. My professional background spans private practice, charity work, reproductive healthcare, and secondary mental health settings. I have experience supporting people with a wide range of presentations, including trauma, domestic violence, low mood, anxiety, grief, interpersonal difficulties, psychosis, and complex mental health needs. My work is grounded in person-centred, relational, pluralistic, systemic, CBT, and integrative approaches, alongside strong experience in safeguarding, risk assessment, psychometric assessment, formulation, and treatment planning. Alongside my clinical work, I founded Disabled Voices CIC, a disability-led organisation developing accessible emotional support services for disabled people across the UK. The organisation was created to challenge ableism, reduce isolation, and build spaces where disabled people feel heard, believed, and supported with dignity. I’m especially passionate about disability justice and anti-ableist practice, accessible emotional support, trauma-informed service design, community-led mental health support, intersectionality and health equity, training, psychoeducation, and advocacy. At the heart of my work is a simple belief: people deserve support that understands their lives, not systems that ask them to shrink to fit.