About Selena
Selena Zafar offers calm, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress or major life changes. She writes simply and listens closely, helping clients name what matters and decide on small, practical steps. Selena aims to make sessions feel like a respectful conversation rather than a test or lecture.
She uses a client-centred way of working that starts from the person’s own experience. Sessions focus on being listened to without judgement and on building clarity about what the client wants to change.
Background and approach
Goals are agreed together and the pace is set by the client. Selena trained to counselling level and holds a BACP credential. She has three years of professional experience and recently completed an MSc, which she cites as helpful when supporting students and people in academic settings.
Her background includes work on bereavement, race and sports psychology, and she brings that perspective into sessions where relevant. She supports people with a wide range of concerns including stress, relationship issues, grief, self-esteem, eating and body image matters, addiction and trauma. Additional areas of interest include adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family issues, and caregiving stress.
Sessions are offered in English and Selena accepts international clients. Her practice is set up to work online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. New clients are matched through a short questionnaire and then offered scheduling based on therapist availability.
How client-centred work fits with online therapy
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening closely and treating the client as the expert on their own life. The counsellor offers warmth, empathy and non-judgement so people can talk through feelings like anxiety, grief or stress and decide what matters most to them. This approach is helpful for issues where understanding and self-direction matter, such as relationship worries, identity concerns and low self-esteem.Selena uses that collaborative stance to help clients find the right style of work. Together they decide whether to focus on steady conversational work, short practical steps, or a mix of both. Figuring out the best fit is part of the early sessions and changes can be made as needs or goals shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when people prefer it. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier on days when being on camera feels hard. Live chat or messaging suits quick check-ins, short reflections between sessions, or people who express themselves better in writing. These options help fit counselling around work, study and family life while keeping the focus on what the client needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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