Meet Our Counsellors

UCP is a culturally responsive community mental health service in Glasgow for young people aged 12 to 25, offering both in person and online counselling support. The team brings together experience across psychotherapy, counselling, youth support, mentoring, pastoral care and community-based practice. Together, this allows UCP to offer support that is compassionate, culturally aware and responsive to the lived realities of young people, families and communities across the city.

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Team Summary

UCP’s counselling team combines therapeutic skill with community understanding. Across the team, there is experience supporting young people with emotional wellbeing, identity, life transitions, family and faith-related concerns, relational difficulties and everyday mental health challenges. What brings the team together is a shared commitment to offering support that feels safe, respectful and relevant. The service is grounded in cultural responsiveness, youth-centred practice and the belief that young people benefit most when support reflects their identity, relationships, community context and real-life experiences.

Our Team

Amin-Buxton

Amin Buxton (He/Him)
Counsellor and Community Imam

Amin brings together counselling support and trusted community leadership, helping create space for conversations that may include faith, identity, belonging and personal struggle. His presence strengthens UCP’s ability to offer support that is both culturally grounded and emotionally attuned.
Maleeha

Maleeha Mailk (She/Her)
Mental Health Manager and Counsellor

Maleeha helps shape the day-to-day delivery of the mental health service while also providing direct counselling support based in psychodynamic theory. She brings a balanced perspective that combines care coordination, service management and a commitment to accessible emotional support for young people.
Nadeem

Nadeem Ishaque (He/Him)
Service Supervisor and Psychotherapist

Nadeem provides clinical leadership within the service while offering psychotherapy grounded in thoughtful, relational and culturally responsive practice. His role supports both the quality of care young people receive and the wider development of a safe, reflective and community-rooted service.
Safa

Safa Shoket (She/Her)
Youth Mentor

Safa offers mentoring that is centred on the experiences and developmental needs of young people. Her work supports young people in making sense of their feelings, building resilience and finding space to speak openly in a way that feels respectful and affirming.
Shoket

Shoket Aksi (He/Him)
Youth Mentor and University Chaplain

Shoket contributes mentoring, pastoral care and experience supporting young adults in educational and community settings. His work adds an important bridge between emotional support, guidance, reflection and the wider pressures young people can experience in study, identity and everyday life.

Closing Service Statement

UCP is a culturally responsive community mental health service based in Glasgow, offering counselling support for 12 to 25 year olds both in person and online. The aim is to make support feel approachable, relevant and connected to the lived experiences of the young people who access the service.