About Faha
Faha Makhdum is a counsellor who draws on 12 years of professional experience in the UK. She focuses on helping people through stress, anxiety and low mood, and on restoring confidence and motivation. She aims to treat everyone with respect and sensitivity while adapting to each person's needs.
Faha offers support for relationship concerns and for people affected by trauma and abuse. She also helps with issues such as addictions, grief, sleep and eating difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
How Faha works
Her range includes career strain, anger, and coping with big life changes. She works with concerns linked to ADHD, body image and self‑esteem, abandonment and codependency. She can assist those facing caregiver stress, cancer‑related difficulties, and the fallout of separation or domestic violence.
Communication and control problems, blended family challenges, and family of origin issues are within her focus too. Faha uses evidence‑based therapeutic techniques and adapts conversations and plans to each person. She aims for practical, straightforward sessions that build skills and understanding.
The format and pace are set together so each person gets what they need. Her professional registration is with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are delivered in English and she sees clients across the United Kingdom and internationally.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect people and schedule sessions.
What Faha works with
The areas below are the ones Faha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Evidence‑based approaches for online therapy
Faha uses evidence‑based therapeutic techniques tailored to the person in front of her. One common approach focuses on practical skills to reduce anxiety and manage stress, teaching breathing and coping techniques alongside structured ways to tackle unhelpful thoughts. Another approach centres on working through trauma and abuse with paced conversations that help a person process difficult memories and regain a sense of control.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Faha will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then try methods together and adjust as needed. That makes the therapy collaborative and responsive to how someone is progressing.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text‑based messaging to fit different needs. Video is well suited to deeper conversations, phone is useful when bandwidth is low, and messaging or chat lets people check in more flexibly or between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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