About Sukti

I was specifically trained to provide culturally sensitive counselling for the Asian community. This was mostly for the Bangladeshi community, in their own language. Later, this method of counselling was extended to other communities as well. In 2000 I was asked to establish a culturally sensitive counselling project for the Bangladeshi community.

Following the success of this special type of counselling, the project was extended to the Somali community, with funding provided by the NHS. Counselling was provided in the community’s own language, Bengali (Sylheti) and Somali, as well as in English. This project was highly successful and provided much needed and valuable work to communities for 12 years, after which the NHS funding came to an end.

Although my work has been mainly with the Bangladeshi community, I have provided counselling to many people from both ethnic minority and indigenous backgrounds.

Working with various communities over 30 years, I have developed an acute sense of cultural identity. My work includes the individual’s identity within the family, the particular community one belongs to, and in the wider community, in which we all live and operate; and finally the difficulties arising from these conflicts and how to overcome and move on with one’s own life.