Farhan Ghafoor
Supportive counsellor blending listening and practical tools
About Farhan
Farhan Ghafoor uses a client-centred way of working to help people feel heard and understood. He is a BACP counsellor with eight years of experience. He focuses on practical steps that can ease daily stress and improve how people relate to others.
He supports people dealing with anxiety, depression and sleeping or eating concerns. He also helps with relationship tension, family conflict and parenting strain. Farhan works with grief, addiction, trauma and abuse matters in the sessions he runs.
Background and approach
Farhan brings calm and straightforward guidance to conversations about attachment, body image and fatherhood issues. He also helps people facing cancer, hospice and end-of-life counselling matters, and those coping with isolation or jealousy. His approach aims to break concerns down into manageable pieces.
In sessions he blends client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural techniques. That mix lets people talk through feelings and try simple strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and routines. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person needs.
People can expect short-term practical tools alongside deeper conversation when it suits them. He explains ideas plainly and helps set small goals. The aim is to make day-to-day life a bit easier and clearer over time.
What Farhan works with
How Farhan works
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Sessions & fees
How client-centred and CBT work online
Farhan blends client-centred work and cognitive behavioural therapy in online sessions to meet everyday needs and longer-term goals. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping people make sense of their feelings. It suits issues where being heard and building trust are the first steps to change.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses simple exercises and small experiments to shift unhelpful thinking and routines, which can help with anxiety, low mood, sleeping and eating problems.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Farhan will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods as the work progresses. He aims to try practical techniques while keeping conversations collaborative and paced to each person.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging options suit brief check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life and other commitments.
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
