Faiza Malik

Faiza Malik is a BACP counsellor with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief and loss, addictions, and self-esteem concerns. Her style aims to be warm and straightforward so clients feel heard from the start.

She favours approaches that centre on connection and practical change. That includes attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns, client-centred work to follow the client’s pace, and cognitive behavioural techniques to change unhelpful thinking. She also uses emotionally-focused methods and hypnotherapy when these fit a person’s goals.

In sessions she helps people notice patterns that keep causing pain and then tries simple steps to change them. Conversations may include looking at past relationships, practising different ways to respond, and learning tools for calmer thinking. For some people she combines talk work with guided relaxation or reframing exercises.

Faiza has worked across many issues such as trauma, eating and body image concerns, addiction, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and identity matters including LGBT topics. She also supports people with anger, sleep problems, career pressures, ADHD and coping with major life changes.

She offers therapy in English, Punjabi and Urdu and is based in the United Kingdom. To begin, readers are advised to use the site’s Start Therapy option to complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions according to availability.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Faiza draws on attachment-based work to help people spot long-standing relationship patterns and how those patterns affect current connections. This approach looks at emotional bonds and helps people build different ways of relating that reduce repeated hurt.

She also uses client-centred methods that keep the person’s pace front and centre, offering listening and reflection so clients set the agenda. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments to change them, which can help with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adapt what they do as therapy unfolds. That collaborative process helps match methods to personal needs rather than relying on a single formula.

If you are considering online sessions, please check which formats the counsellor currently offers before booking. Online options can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, save travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a schedule. They also let people access a counsellor who speaks English, Punjabi or Urdu even when they live abroad.