Farhaana Hanif, BACP

Farhaana Hanif is a person-centred counsellor with three years' experience working across the social care sector. She offers a calm and compassionate space for people facing depression, anxiety, burnout or grief. Farhaana listens without judgement and helps clients make sense of what feels heavy. She uses a steady, respectful style and supports people at their own pace.

Farhaana’s background includes supporting people through relationship issues, suppressed emotions and life transitions. She describes her work as collaborative - the client leads and she follows with empathy and practical support. Sessions focus on untangling difficult emotions and finding tools that fit each person’s life.

Her approach is warm and grounding. Farhaana aims to help people reconnect with emotional strength and build clearer boundaries when old patterns cause stress. She pays close attention to what feels manageable, offering gentle challenge when it helps move things forward.

Common topics she supports include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression and coping with life changes. She also has experience addressing issues such as body image, caregiver strain, chronic illness and communication problems.

In sessions Farhaana encourages honest, paced exploration rather than quick fixes. The focus is on lasting clarity and calmer day-to-day living. If someone is unsure about starting, she offers a steady presence to walk alongside them as they decide.

She practises in the United Kingdom and works in English. Her qualification is with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP.

How therapy approaches work online and in practice

Person-centred counselling focuses on listening and meeting the person where they are. The counsellor follows what the client brings, offers empathy and helps them make sense of their feelings. This approach suits people who want a non-judgemental space to process difficult emotions.

Evidence-based techniques involve using well-researched methods to build coping skills and manage symptoms. In practical terms this can mean learning ways to notice patterns, manage anxiety and work through grief in smaller steps. These methods aim to give tools that can be used outside sessions to make daily life easier.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they pick or adapt methods that fit the client's situation rather than imposing a single way of working.

Online therapy can make fitting sessions into a busy life simpler, for example by reducing travel time and allowing appointments around work or care routines. Since the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm the available options before booking. Online sessions can support steady, ongoing work on stress, anxiety, grief and other concerns without promising particular formats or outcomes.