About Zayd
Zayd Awan is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. He takes a direct, human approach and aims to make sessions clear and practical. People who feel overwhelmed, stuck or uncertain about relationships often find his style accessible and down to earth.
He draws on five years of practice as a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom. Sessions are framed around the person in front of him rather than labels.
Background and approach
Conversations cover current struggles, how those problems developed, and small steps to make life more manageable. Zayd is comfortable talking about trauma, addiction, grief and mood concerns such as depression or bipolar experiences. He also addresses relationship patterns, intimacy-related issues, attachment and abandonment wounds, and challenges linked to sexual expression including BDSM and kink when clients bring them up.
Practical tools and reflective work sit side by side in his approach. He may use breathwork, movement, imaginative exercises or reflective dialogue to help people notice patterns and try different responses. The aim is to build clearer choices and steadier coping over time.
Sessions can include support around parenting pressures, career stress, loneliness, and the strain of caregiving or compassion fatigue. He also works with people exploring identity matters such as LGBT concerns and issues around shame, guilt or self-worth. People are invited to move at their own pace.
Zayd prefers to agree goals together and return to them as therapy unfolds. This keeps work focused while allowing space for emotion and discovery.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
He combines evidence-based talking work with somatic and creative practices. Talk-based work helps people name patterns, understand triggers and test new ways of responding; this is useful for anxiety, stress and relationship problems.He may also use breathwork and movement-based exercises to help people regulate strong feelings and notice how the body responds to stress. These techniques can suit those who find verbalising emotions difficult or who want tools for calming during high anxiety.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to your needs, try a few methods and agree what helps most. Goals are set together and reviewed as therapy progresses so the plan fits your life and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video lets you read facial cues and have a fuller conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is low, chat or messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer not to use voice. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and to keep continuity when life is busy.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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