Nishkam Mental and Emotional Wellbeing Service

Nishkam Mental and Emotional Wellbeing Service infuses faith-inspired wisdom with clinical excellence to deliver counselling for adults with emotional and mental health needs, serving people of all backgrounds and faiths, and helping to guide them back to their root selves.

The service has found a unique space, supporting those with low to moderate mental health needs, complementing existing NHS services. Due to multiple pathways developed within the local NHS framework, Nishkam regularly receives referrals from those who would not normally access mental health services.

Our service

Our mental health team is made up of 5 counsellors and psychotherapists.

We offer weekly 6 to 10 counselling sessions with a counsellor, either in person centred counselling, integrative approach or inner child therapy.

The sessions are face-to-face, or can be offered over the phone or online. 

We adhere to the BACP ethical framework for the counselling professions.

Our team offers counselling in the following languages:

  • English

  • Punjabi

  • Urdu

  • Mirpuri

  • Hindi

Our story

Our impact

Here are our key outcomes from our launch in 2021:

250 clients supported with 1164 number of counselling sessions

  • Most frequent challenges around stress and anxiety

  • 50% improvement in depression scores (PHQ-9)

  • 48% improvement in anxiety scores (GAD-7).

NMEWS partners with many different community and local organisations. These include:

Our partnerships

Healing with forgiveness

NMEWS focuses on healing the self with forgiveness and compassion, in line with the Peace Charter for Forgiveness and Compassion, which was developed over a decade of international dialogue and consultation, and first launched at the Religions for Peace International Conference in 2019.

The vision of the Peace Charter for Forgiveness and Reconciliation is that the process of forgiving is vital if healing and reconciliation are to take place, as part of our collective efforts to seek justice, harmony and sustainable peace.

Please visit the Charter for Forgiveness website for more information.

Accessing our services

Our services are open to everyone and can be accessed by referral through the NHS, GP, or by self-referral. We see individuals with a range of challenges including low mood, anxiety, stress, loss and isolation, as well as relationship and work issues..

If you feel you would like to access our counselling service, please complete this user-referral and pre-screening form and we will respond to you within 3 days.

Alternatively, please contact us via email at nmews@nishkamhealth.com, or call us on 0121 348 7500 (option 3).

Integrated health and social care

We recognise the interconnectivity of physical, mental and emotional wellbeing in order to achieve good health, and we understand the importance of wider determinants of health such as poverty and unemployment.

We work within the Nishkam group of organisations which has strong partnerships with other registered charities, NHS organisations as well as Birmingham City council. Within the Nishkam campus itself we have access to a number of services including but not limited to:

  • Financial/benefits support

  • Housing support

  • Access to educational classes

  • Employment and careers support

  • Advocacy services

  • Food parcels during times of crisis

  • Multi-faith chaplaincy services

  • Physical activity and wellbeing classes

Meet the Team

  • Rupinder Kaur

    Rupinder Kaur is a person-centred psychotherapist and emotional therapeutic counsellor.

    Rupinder offers a diverse healing space to explore areas of your life in which you may wish to change, heal and move forward. Using inner child therapy, creative tools and faith inspired teachings.

    She has experience in working with women who have suffered domestic violence, and has been a keen volunteer at Nishkam Healthcare Trust since 2020, helping with the Listening Ear Service.

    She is training in Rosen Method Somatic Bodywork to complement her talking therapies practice.

  • Irum Ahmed

    Irum Ahmed is a counsellor at Nishkam Mental and Emotional Wellbeing service. She is also an experienced psychology professional.

    Irum has gained valuable professional experience in various health settings from overseas and the UK.

  • Sharon Kaur

    Sharon Kaur is a qualified Therapeutic Counsellor with a passion for supporting individuals through life’s challenges.

    She holds a warm, friendly, and non-judgemental safe space where you can talk openly and feel truly heard.

    Sharon has many years of experience of working in education. This has given her valuable insight into the challenges people face, which in turn, underpins her ability to build trust and provide tailored support in her counselling practice.

  • Hardeep Kaur

  • Amreen Kaur

  • Sukhvinder Kaur