Shireen Noor BSc(Hons), MA,MUKCP

Biography

Shireen Noor is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and licensed Couples Counsellor in private practice in Hertfordshire and London, and a Professional Doctorate candidate in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. Her doctoral research explores shame and trauma in South Asian women from a psychoanalytic perspective, examining how cultural, familial, and gendered experience shapes psychic life. Theoretical interlocutors include Freud, Fairbairn, Winnicott, Fanon, Sudhir Kakar, and Salman Akhtar, alongside South Asian research literature and postcolonial and decolonising frameworks. Her published work includes the paper Beyond the Skulls of Our Colonised Ancestors and a book review of The Psychoanalytic Zero: A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues, published on Taylor and Francis Online. The papers are published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Volume 28, Issue 1, 2026, in the special issue Decolonising Psychotherapy and Empires of the Mind, She has presented at the Winds of Change Conference at the University of Essex, the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling, the Marginalised and Menopause Conference: Reclaiming Menopause in Racialised Bodies on menopause and mental health, and the Dont Pause for Menopause Symposium on menopause and relationships. She has also presented a seminar, Reflections on Working with Trauma in British South Asians, to the British Pakistani Psychiatrist Association (BPPA). Her broader academic interests span trauma, migration, loss, culture, identity, and the psychoanalytic understanding of culture, with particular attention to South Asian experiences of mental health, midlife psychological shifts, and the rethinking of identity and relational life in adulthood. Professional memberships United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Site For Contemporary Psychoanalysis Black, African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN) South Asian Therapist

Qualifications

• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis) (2018)

• Certification Couples Counselling International Society of Professional Counsellors (2022)

• MA in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Psychoanalysis Brunel University (2008)

• BSc (Hons) Psychology Brunel University (2006)

Thesis