Nisa Farooq, BACP

When daily pressures mount and it becomes difficult to find a way forward, Nisa Farooq offers steady, compassionate support to help people move toward change. She understands that taking the first step to see a counsellor takes courage, and she frames that step as an important act of self-care and commitment to wellbeing.

Nisa is BACP registered - BACP stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and she is an accredited psychodynamic counsellor. In plain terms, psychodynamic work helps clients explore how past experiences and unconscious patterns can shape current feelings and relationships. Nisa is also an experienced bereavement counsellor trained by Cruse Bereavement Care, offering focused support for loss and grief.

She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, eating-related difficulties, parenting challenges, and related areas such as hoarding, immigration and multicultural matters, obsessions and compulsions, personality difficulties, non-monogamous relationships, and experiences of prejudice. Her practice emphasises collaborative, non-judgemental listening and practical support designed to improve emotional wellbeing.

Nisa invites people to reach out when they are ready, recognising that feeling heard and understood is a useful starting point on a healing journey. She works with clients in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients as well.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Nisa integrates several evidence-informed approaches to tailor support to each person's needs. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of relating formed in early relationships - it helps people understand and change ways of connecting that cause distress in adult relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a practical approach that explores how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact, offering strategies to manage anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the impact of distressing events by helping clients process traumatic memories and reduce their ongoing emotional influence.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Nisa works collaboratively with clients to identify which methods best fit their goals, preferences and practical needs. Sessions are guided by what clients find most helpful and are adjusted over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel. These options expand access to registered professionals and allow clients to engage in ways that feel most comfortable and manageable.