About Fariba
Fariba Shahbakhti-Warrington is a counsellor who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She supports those coping with relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and changes like separation or divorce. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making difficult problems easier to talk about and manage.
She uses clear tools drawn from cognitive behavioural ideas and attachment-based thinking together with client-centred listening. Sessions focus on what matters now - reducing overwhelming feelings, building coping steps and repairing relationships where possible.
Background and approach
Fariba works in English and Persian and accepts international clients. Her background includes professional counselling experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She brings three years of experience in the roles described for this listing.
This informs a calm, respectful way of working and an emphasis on clients' own strengths. People can expect short-term practical strategies alongside deeper conversations about meaning and values when that feels helpful. Fariba aims to tailor each meeting to the person's needs and pace.
She supports issues such as eating concerns, intimacy-related difficulties, parenting stress, and managing bipolar mood shifts. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text messaging depending on what the person prefers. The first steps involve a short matching questionnaire and then arranging appointments to suit the individual's schedule.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions can look at patterns in close relationships and help people build more supported ways of relating. Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of the session. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the person's lead to help them make sense of what matters most. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, uses practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and is often used for anxiety and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then try methods that suit the person's needs. This collaborative way makes it easier to adjust the plan as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat and text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit brief check-ins, and text messaging allows short reflections between meetings. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while keeping the focus on progress and practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Persian
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