CBT & Anxiety Support for High-Achieving BAME Professionals | rkTherapy

A Therapist Who Understands High-Pressure Corporate Environments

High-achieving professionals often experience anxiety that is invisible to others but deeply impactful.

Before training as a clinical therapist, Roje worked in the City alongside chartered financial analysts and investment professionals. This experience provides first-hand understanding of the psychological demands of high-pressure corporate environments. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Roje supported medical professionals and a leading London law firm with their staff who were experiencing health anxiety, burnout, and performance-related stress.

This combination of lived corporate experience and clinical expertise allows therapy to focus on precision and relevance — without the need to explain the realities of your working world.

CBT therapy for BAME Clients in London

Roje specialises in working with Black, Asian, and minority ethnic clients who experience anxiety, stress, or burnout within complex cultural and social contexts.

Therapy explicitly considers intergenerational expectations, cultural norms around emotion, and the psychological impact of navigating professional spaces.

This makes the work particularly effective for clients who have found previous therapy helpful but incomplete.

CBT therapy for Anxiety — With Cultural and Social Context

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for anxiety, stress, and related mental health difficulties.

However, for many BAME professionals, anxiety does not exist in isolation. It is shaped by cultural expectations, social positioning, identity, and chronic stress.

Roje's work integrates CBT with social psychology and sociological structures to address both symptoms and the wider systems maintaining distress.

Health Psychology and the Impact of Chronic Stress

From a health psychology perspective, long-term anxiety and pressure to perform can affect sleep, concentration, physical health, and emotional regulation.

Roje uses CBT adapted for long-term health conditions to help clients see how stress operates at both psychological and physiological levels, particularly in high-functioning individuals who appear “coping” but feel depleted.

See full list of medical conditions support via psychological therapy here.

Integrating Faith, Meaning, and Cultural Identity in Therapy

For many rkTherapy BAME clients, faith and spirituality are central to identity, resilience, and meaning.

Mainstream wellbeing models often overlook this dimension, especially if approached from a secular viewpoint, leaving clients feeling unseen or internally conflicted.

Where relevant, therapy can thoughtfully integrate religious belief, spiritual values, and existential questions into psychological work — in a way that is clinically grounded, culturally respectful, and aligned with evidence-based practice.