About Rabia
Rabia Waqar Khan helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship strain, parenting pressures and career worries. She supports those coping with trauma, compassion fatigue, self-esteem difficulties and attention challenges. Rabia presents herself in a calm, straightforward way to make first steps feel manageable.
Rabia works from the belief that each person knows their story best. She encourages clients to build on their own strengths and to set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be practical and focused on tools that can be used between meetings. Her approach combines talking with skill-building. Rabia uses elements of cognitive behavioural work to spot unhelpful thinking and behavioural patterns.
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques to help people clarify values and commit to meaningful action. Mindfulness practices are introduced to help with emotional regulation and grounding. Client-centred ways of working mean the pace and focus are guided by the person in the room.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills and motivational interviewing are used when appropriate to support change and coping. Rabia holds BACP accreditation, which indicates a professional alignment with national counselling standards in the United Kingdom. She has twelve years of experience and speaks English, Punjabi and Urdu.
Sessions are offered in several online formats to suit different needs.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Rabia often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy online. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take steps based on what matters most. It can help with anxiety, avoidance and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical strategies to reduce distress and change unhelpful patterns.She also uses mindfulness-based practices to help reduce reactivity and to improve focus. These are simple grounding exercises and breathing techniques that can be practised between sessions to manage stress and intrusive thoughts. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process; the therapist will work collaboratively to match techniques to the person's goals, needs and preferences rather than assuming one method fits everyone.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted, and text-based options suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and time zones, and they allow for flexible, ongoing contact while you try different ways of working.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Punjabi, Urdu
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