Aqsa is a registered clinical psychologist in New Zealand with over five years of clinical experience working with adolescents, young adults, and adults. She has worked in private practice in Pakistan and across a range of clinical platforms locally and internationally, supporting clients from diverse cultural and clinical backgrounds.
She has expertise in treating mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, and a range of internalising and externalising difficulties. Aqsa is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and also has foundational expertise in schema Therapy, Mentalization-Based approaches and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She provides evidence-based, client-centred care tailored to individual needs, with a strong focus on emotional regulation, coping, and relational wellbeing.
Alongside her clinical work, Aqsa is a PhD candidate in child and family psychology at the University of Canterbury. Her research focuses on parents involved with Child Protection Services and examines a mentalization-based parenting intervention aimed at strengthening parental reflective functioning and improving parenting capacity.
