Shahnawaz Haque qualified as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the London Centre for Psychotherapy.

He is an honorary Imam and has a private practice as an Islamic therapist working with individuals and couples in psychotherapy and counselling informed both by his psychotherapy training and by Islamic concepts. He also works for Respond providing psychotherapy for people with learning disabilities who have experienced sexual trauma.

He is a consultant psychotherapist at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies.