Constance Farahmand-Afshar
Supportive counsellor for stress and life changes
About Constance
Constance Farahmand-Afshar offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss or addictive behaviours. She writes simply and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person. Her first aim is to make it easier to talk about hard things and begin small, practical changes.
She draws on four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
Conversations with her focus on what you want to change and on steps you can try between sessions. Sessions are shaped around the person's pace and priorities rather than a fixed formula. Constance uses a mix of approaches to meet different needs.
That can include client-centred work to prioritise the person's own goals, cognitive behavioural techniques to address anxious thoughts and behaviours, motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change, and psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns from the past.
People reach out to Constance for many reasons, including depression, bipolar mood concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related worries, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency and substance misuse. Her style is respectful and compassionate.
She aims to agree clear, practical steps and to build on strengths. The work is collaborative and focused on finding what helps in daily life.
What Constance works with
How Constance works
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Sessions & fees
How Constance blends approaches for online support
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experience. The counsellor listens carefully, reflects what is said and helps the person find their own answers; this works well for people who want to set the pace and shape their work.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises and experiments to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful routines, which can help with worry, low mood and sleep problems.
Deciding which approach to use is part of the therapeutic work. Constance will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before. Together they will try approaches and adapt them so the sessions fit the person's needs.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone can be better when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep momentum between sessions.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
