Nisa Farooq, BACP

When life feels overwhelming, Nisa Farooq offers calm, practical support to help people move toward greater emotional wellbeing. She acknowledges how daunting the first step can be and treats beginning therapy as an act of courage, working with each person to build inner strength and self-belief.

Nisa is a BACP-registered and accredited psychodynamic counsellor - a recognition that reflects her professional standing with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and she is also an experienced bereavement counsellor trained by Cruse Bereavement Care. Her background means she combines psychodynamic understanding with specialist bereavement skills to respond sensitively to loss and grief.

She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, eating difficulties, parenting challenges and related issues such as hoarding, immigration and multicultural concerns. Additional focus areas include obsessive-compulsive patterns, personality difficulties, non-monogamous relationship dynamics and experiences of prejudice and discrimination. Presenting difficulties such as narcissistic injury, addiction, body image worries and victims of crime are also addressed.

Nisa approaches each person collaboratively and without judgment, offering a supportive space to be heard and understood. When someone is ready to begin, she aims to help them find the right way forward and to support lasting change through thoughtful, tailored therapeutic work.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of relating to others and to oneself. It helps people explore patterns of connection, trust and dependence, and is often useful for relationship difficulties, attachment wounds and self-esteem concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical strategies to reduce unhelpful patterns. It can be helpful for anxiety, low mood, compulsive behaviours and many everyday stresses.

Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on the impact of traumatic events and on building coping strategies that reduce ongoing distress. This approach is aimed at helping people process traumatic memories and regain a sense of safety and control.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself - Nisa will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so therapy remains relevant and effective for each individual.

Online therapy formats - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life or to access support from another location. These options offer flexibility in scheduling, allow contact from home or while traveling, and support ongoing engagement for people with varied routines and commitments.