“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”

Margaret Mead

Kumlaish is a highly experienced and accomplished practitioner with over 30 years in the field of Social Work, Counselling and therapeutic practices, as well as training and teaching. She began her academic career in teaching counselling and social care at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Central England in the UK.

She set up her own private practice in 2000 and has since worked successfully as a counsellor, family and couple therapist and NLP Coach/Trainer and philanthropist. As a recognized Consultant, Kumlaish has been instrumental in working with organisations to promote cultural change with her Cultural Intelligence expertise.

She has a diverse client base and is sought after for her excellent interventions with clients who have struggled to achieve positive outcomes. Kumlaish demonstrates a tremendous insight into human relationships, behaviour and the cultural dimensions of identity.

As an experienced Therapist/Counsellor and workshop facilitator she is able to draw from a range of different theoretical perspectives to create unique models of working, which are tailored to client’s needs. She has a particular specialism in working with Asian women on issues of personal growth and development. Kumlaish has acted as a career coach to staff in several local authorities undergoing internal re-structuring.

As a qualified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner, Trainer and Hypnotherapist she prides herself in working with the whole person, in terms of their physical, mental and spiritual needs, adapting techniques from these disciplines to create the most dynamic and effective methods of intervention for her clients.

She adds to her skills tool kit with her impressive multi-lingual skills in English, Punjabi and Hindi. Kumlaish is pioneering in her work with minority ethnic communities who do not traditionally relate to counselling/coaching as a service. In her quest to make her services more accessible to them she is currently building resources to translate and adapt therapeutic tools from traditional Eurocentric perspectives to make them applicable to different minority clients.

Kumlaish is actively enaged in philanthropic work as a Trustee of the Divine Onkar Mission, a