Selena Zafar
Compassionate client-centred counselling
About Selena
Selena Zafar offers a calm, respectful place for people feeling overwhelmed. She welcomes conversations about stress, anxiety, grief, identity and everyday pressures. Selena uses straightforward listening and reflection to help people find their own clarity and next steps.
She follows the principles of Client-Centred Therapy, which means she focuses on understanding each person's experience without judgement. Sessions move at the client’s pace and priorities guide the work together. Goal-setting is collaborative so people leave with clear, manageable steps.
Background and approach
Selena trained in counselling and holds a BACP credential, and she also completed an MSc. That combination informs a practical, down-to-earth style that balances lived experience with academic learning. She has three years of practice experience.
Her background includes growing up in a multifaith, multicultural family, and she draws on that perspective when talking about identity and cultural concerns. She has particular interest in bereavement and sport-related wellbeing, along with a broad range of everyday issues such as relationships, work stress and self-esteem.
Sessions are available in English and are offered to people both in the United Kingdom and internationally. Therapy can be conducted through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. To begin, people select Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
What Selena works with
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Sessions & fees
Client-centred care online and practical options
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and respect. The counsellor reflects what someone says and helps them find their own solutions, which suits issues like low self-esteem, grief and identity questions.Selena uses that person-centred approach to keep sessions collaborative. Together they set goals, try different ways of talking about problems and adjust the pace to suit what feels most helpful. The therapist will help clients decide which methods and session formats match their needs and preferences.
Online sessions offer flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give different ways to connect so people can choose what matches their schedule and comfort level.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
