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Nisa Farooq, BACP

Credentials: BACP
Experience: 5 years
Practising in: United Kingdom
Languages: English
Sessions: Online only
Client ages: Adults, 18 and over

Works with Stress, Anxiety Trauma and abuse Grief Depression

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Nisa Farooq offers a gentle, attachment-informed approach to therapy that focuses on building safety and understanding in the therapeutic relationship. She uses clear, practical methods to help people handle stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and depression. Nisa’s work is straightforward and grounded, aimed at making difficult feelings easier to name and manage.

Nisa combines techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with solution-focused ways of working to help people spot unhelpful patterns and make small, workable changes.

Background and approach

She also uses trauma-focused strategies when past events are affecting daily life. Sessions are conversational and aim to help people feel listened to without judgement. Her practice includes support for eating-related concerns, hoarding, obsessive and compulsive difficulties, and personality-related struggles.

She also addresses issues that arise from immigration, multicultural experience, prejudice and discrimination. Nisa pays particular attention to grief and bereavement and the complex feelings those losses can bring. With five years of experience, Nisa brings calm and practical guidance to sessions.

She holds BACP, which indicates professional membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her work is based in the United Kingdom and she offers help in English. Nisa welcomes conversations about what someone needs and how therapy might fit into their life.

The aim is to help people build coping skills, strengthen emotional understanding and find clearer ways forward.

How therapeutic approaches work online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and how early bonds shape emotional responses. Online sessions use conversation to notice patterns in how someone connects with others and to practise different ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is practical and structured. It helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, try small experiments, and build new coping skills. That approach works well for anxiety, depression and obsessive thinking when delivered by video or phone.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then agree a plan together. This collaborative process means methods can be adjusted as therapy progresses.

Online formats offer real convenience and flexibility. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day, and live chat or text messaging suit short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care and to access help from different locations.

What kinds of problems does Nisa help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, eating concerns and parenting challenges, plus related areas such as hoarding and OCD.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her approach is warm and practical, combining attachment ideas with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and solution-focused strategies to address symptoms and patterns.

How much experience does she have?

Nisa has five years of clinical experience working with a range of emotional and behavioural concerns.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is a member of BACP and practices from the United Kingdom.

Which languages and international clients are supported?

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.

What session formats are available?

Therapy can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How are costs handled?

Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin therapy with her?

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Depression
Eating disorders
Hoarding
Immigration issues
Multicultural concerns
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Parenting issues
Personality disorders
Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Prejudice and discrimination

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 5 years
Registered with: BACP
Languages: English

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Nisa Farooq, BACP

Background and approach

How therapeutic approaches work online

Areas of focus

What this therapist works with

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