Saroj Sharma
Counsellor for Diverse Cultures/Liaison Worker

Saroj is employed full-time by the department as a GP Counsellor for Diverse Cultures and Liaison Worker for the Telford and Wrekin PCT based at Dawley Psychological Therapies. This post was created after a report was compiled by a clinical psychologist based on the needs of the local ethnic community.

Saroj is a qualified counsellor with a Diploma from the Birmingham University and works in an integrative way using many schools of thoughts according to the needs of the client. She specializes in working with people from diverse cultures and can offer counselling in Panjabi, Urdu and English.

Leaflet in English.
Leaflet in Punjabi.
Leaflet in Urdu

Saroj runs the Sahara (Sahara means support in Panjabi and Urdu) Group for women, based on building psychological resilience in vulnerable women, the ‘something more’ programme, adapted for Asian women.

Saroj’s role as a Liaison Worker is to raise awareness with the Black Minority Ethnic Communities about choices in counselling now being offered for speaker of other languages. She can see clients at their surgery, at Dawley or initially at home.

Read her reports about this service including one about the Sahara Group for Women by going to Diverse Cultures