Riffat Jabeen
Supportive integrative counsellor for everyday challenges
About Riffat
Riffat Jabeen uses an integrative, client-centred approach to help people find steadier ground. She draws on several therapy styles to match what each person needs. Riffat works from the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration.
She has five years of experience in counselling and supports a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma, depression and relationship and intimacy issues. Her background blends person-centred listening with techniques from cognitive behavioural work and attachment-focused thinking.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters now and on links to earlier experience that can influence current struggles. She often introduces simple mindfulness exercises to help with sleep, anger and stress management. Riffat aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can name what feels difficult.
The process is collaborative and moves at the client’s pace. Practical tools and small changes are offered alongside deeper discussion when appropriate. She has worked with a wide variety of concerns including grief, compassion fatigue, body-image and coping with chronic illness.
Additional focus areas listed include issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency and domestic violence. Riffat tailors her approach to the problem presented rather than following a fixed formula. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Therapy is provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that suit their needs.
What Riffat works with
How Riffat works
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Sessions & fees
How Riffat's approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and how early connections shape current reactions. Online sessions can help people recognise those patterns and try new ways of relating that ease stress and conflict. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and building trust through acceptance and empathy. In online conversations this means the counsellor follows what the person brings and helps them make sense of feelings at their own pace. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, uses practical skills to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours; it suits worries, low mood, sleep problems and anger by offering concrete steps to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt techniques as the relationship develops. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits the person rather than forcing one method.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, journalling between sessions or people who prefer typing over speaking. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work, travel or family commitments while using the chosen therapeutic approaches.
| 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
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
