Farzana Iqbal
Calm, practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Farzana
Farzana Iqbal is a BACP therapist based in the United Kingdom. She provides calm, straightforward counselling for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression and life changes. Her approach aims to make it easier to say what matters and find practical next steps.
Sessions are down-to-earth and non-judgemental. She listens to what a person is actually facing and helps them name the feelings beneath the surface. Conversations are steady and paced to the client rather than rushed towards quick fixes.
Background and approach
Farzana uses client-centred techniques that focus on the person’s experience and priorities. She also draws on solution-focused methods to help identify small, useful changes that can make daily life more manageable. Together these approaches emphasise practical coping and clearer perspectives.
Clients bring a wide range of concerns, including anger, career questions, coping with bereavement, body image, family of origin issues, fertility and end-of-life matters. She also supports people working through abandonment, attachment struggles, guilt, shame, isolation and financial stress. The emphasis is on clear, doable steps and honest conversation.
Farzana aims to make starting therapy straightforward. She encourages people to reach out even if they are unsure what they need yet. The work centres on listening carefully, building understanding and finding ways forward that fit each person’s life.
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How Farzana works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches shape online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy places the person and their experience at the heart of the work. It involves open listening, reflecting what matters to the client, and letting the conversation set the direction. This helps when someone needs space to sort through feelings like grief, anxiety or emptiness.Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, practical steps that move things forward. Sessions focus on strengths, recent successes and manageable changes that can ease daily stress. This approach often suits people who want concrete ideas to try between meetings.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide what fits each person's needs and preferences. Goals, pace and methods are reviewed together so the work stays relevant and useful.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm what is currently offered before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work, reduce travel time and allow calmer check-ins when life is busy. It can also let people choose gentler ways to connect, such as shorter conversations when that suits their day.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
