Soheil Javid

I am a qualified social worker with 16 years’ experience, including as a Supervising Social Worker supporting foster carers and looked-after children. I train carers in trauma-informed practice, attachment and the impact of adverse experiences. For six years, I have also worked on a suicide prevention helpline, supporting callers with complex needs, including those actively suicidal or in acute crisis. Although not providing formal therapy, my role involves therapeutic listening, counselling-informed support, risk assessment and helping callers explore emotions, coping strategies and ways forward. I am starting a counselling qualification to formalise this experience through theory and further develop my therapeutic skills.