Our Team

Our Story

Yaran services is committed to achieve high quality of opportunities in all aspects of its work and to implement this statement in the areas of our management structure service delivery, policy development and access to use of services.

Our multi-cultural team is made up of fully qualified counsellors, psychotherapists and advocacy advisors who have worked for more than 10 years. The team is able to offer their services in languages other than English.

Yaran Team

Yaran Director

Ms Parvin Emampour

(Director / Operation Manager)

Mrs Rokhsana Nowroozi

(Director / Clinical Manager)

Supervisor / Couples therapist

Relate trained relationship therapist and counselling couples for over 20 years. She has also been running parenting groups. Also a registered member BACP.

Mr Peter Field

Director | BA (Hons) (Oxon) / Dip TEO PGCE, MA TESOL (Manchester)

Before retiring he taught English for forty years, the last twenty years at University level in the UK and the Middle East. He is also a professional translator.

Rozita Hossain

(Director)

Solicitor, BSC (Hons), CPE, LSF

Ms Afsaneh Burrow

Director
MSc (Computers), BSc, CertEd, Cert in Counselling
S/W Engineer, Lecturer, Professional interpreter, have been dealing with adult and children’s education over 30 years of which have been running a Farsi School for about 20 years.

Management Team

Ms Anita (Shaghayegh) Jafari

Qualified Counsellor (BACP Registered)

Office Manager/HR/Fully qualified psychotherapist/CBT Children Therapist
Environmental Health Degree (University of Salford), Environmental Health Engineering (Shahid Beheshti University)

Mrs Mona Koosha

Development Manager/Fully qualified psychotherapist/CBT Children Therapist

Fully qualified accountant

DPSI Farsi to English law

Registered member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Mrs Helen Singleton

BSc | MSc | MA | DipPsych | Reg Psychotherapist & Clinical Supervisor| MBACP | CIPD

Deepest regret at the sad loss of our friend and colleague Helen Singleton. Helen has been a staunch supporter of all our work. She brought her great wisdom and warmth. She will be greatly missed.

Yaran Psychotherapist Team

Mr Behnam Abdevand

Counsellor (BACP Registered) / Psychotherapist (Transactional Analysis)

Mrs Elmira Akbari Haghighat

MSc Psychology, Official member of British Psychological Society (BPS), CBT Therapist, Mindfulness Therapist

Mrs Farhat Nisa

Qualified counsellor (BACP Registered)

Fully qualified psychotherapist / CBT Children Therapist
Languages (Urdu, Punjabi, Siraiki, Hindko, and English)

Mrs Rim Farajallah

MA, BA, Dip, MBACP, PGCert in Supervision

Registered member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Ms Fahimeh

(Registered member BACP)

Qualified Counsellor

Dr Rawaa Alsheikh

Dr Noha Ibrahim

Doctor | Counsellor | Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

Mrs Lili Bakhtiari

EFT Trainer & Advanced therapist | Counselling student (Level 4)
MBIR Therapist
LLTTF & Connect 5 trainer Group facilitator at Yaran Northwest

Ms Nasrin Emampour

Nurse specialist in education psychiatry. Bachelor degree in psychology. I have worked as therapist for 20 years. I have Cognitive Behaviour Therapy degree and work as well being practitioner for Yaran.