Nisa Farooq, BACP

Nisa Farooq offers practical, compassionate counselling rooted in talking therapy. She is presented as a BACP counsellor and focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed. She aims to make the first step easier and to offer a calm space for people to be heard.

Nisa uses conversation to help people make sense of difficult feelings. She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting stresses and eating-related issues. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, and those dealing with hoarding, immigration and multicultural concerns.

Her approach blends attention to early relationships with practical techniques that change unhelpful thoughts and habits. This means looking at how past experiences shape current reactions, and finding steps someone can try between sessions. Sessions are straightforward and focused on what matters most to the individual.

With five years of experience, Nisa draws on different ways of working such as attachment-based and trauma-focused approaches alongside cognitive behavioural ideas and solution-focused methods. She aims to tailor each session to the person in front of her and to the issues they bring.

People seeking help are invited to start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions according to availability. Nisa works with English-speaking clients and accepts international clients from the United Kingdom base.

How her approaches work for online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people respond now. It helps when patterns from the past cause repeated stress in current life and relationships. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and everyday habits and trying small changes to test new ways of thinking. This can be useful for anxiety, low mood and obsessive thinking.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose which methods suit their goals and preferences. That choice can change over time as different needs appear.

Practical benefits of working online include fitting sessions into a busy week and avoiding travel time. If you are considering online work, confirm the current session options before booking so you know how sessions are arranged. Online work can make it easier to hold shorter check-ins, use video or audio as preferred, and fit therapy around family or work commitments.