Aqsa is a registered clinical psychologist in New Zealand with over five years of clinical experience working with adolescents, young adults, adults, and parents across diverse clinical and cultural contexts. She has worked in private practice in Pakistan and across various clinical platforms locally and internationally.

She has expertise in working with mood disorders, anxiety, trauma-related difficulties, and a range of internalising and externalising presentations. Aqsa is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Clinical Hypnotherapy, with foundational clinical experience in Schema Therapy, Mentalization-Based approaches, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and psychodynamic therapeutic principles. Her clinical training has also included the use of projective assessment techniques to support psychological assessment and formulation of personality, mood, and complex clinical presentations.

Aqsa's approach is evidence-based, client-centred, and strengths-based. She believes clients have the capacity and resources for growth, and that therapy provides a collaborative space to build insight, resilience, and meaningful change.

She also has a particular interest in supporting parents to better understand their children's emotional and behavioural needs, strengthen parent–child relationships, and develop responsive, attachment-informed parenting strategies.

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 mentalising capacity.