About Khafayah
Khafayah Abdulsalam welcomes people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma, grief, depression, addiction and parenting strain. She is named in the first paragraph as requested. She also supports issues around self-esteem, career changes, bipolar mood challenges, intimacy concerns and coping with life transitions.
Khafayah uses a calm, person-centred way of working. Sessions focus on talking things through, learning simple skills, and finding manageable next steps. She can include faith-based reflections when asked, drawing on Islamic perspectives alongside psychological methods.
How Khafayah works
Her practice mixes several approaches to suit each person. Techniques from cognitive behavioural work help identify unhelpful thinking. Attachment-informed methods look at relational patterns and how they affect current life.
Emotion-focused strategies support processing feelings that feel stuck. Khafayah holds accreditation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and is an Accredited Registrant of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, NCPS. She brings five years of experience and works with people in the United Kingdom and beyond.
She offers sessions in English and Yoruba. Therapy is offered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Sessions combine listening, practical tasks such as reflective journaling, and tools for emotional regulation.
Khafayah aims to help people notice small changes that build into lasting difference. She will work alongside each person to set goals and adapt methods to what feels most helpful. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Khafayah lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Khafayah works with
The areas below are the ones Khafayah 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Yoruba |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, encourages people to notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes by focusing on what matters and small behavioural steps.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how earlier relationships shape current patterns. It helps people who struggle with trust, abandonment feelings or repeating the same relationship problems by increasing awareness of those patterns and trying new ways of connecting.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It uses straightforward exercises and practical homework to shift unhelpful thinking and build new habits for managing stress and depression.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Khafayah will discuss options in the early sessions and try methods that fit the person's goals and preferences. She adapts methods over time, checking in to see what helps and what needs changing.
Online formats allow therapy to fit into busy lives. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are useful for ongoing support, brief reflections and when messaging fits a schedule better.
These options make it practical to keep therapy consistent while using approaches such as ACT, attachment-informed work and CBT in ways that suit each person's routine and needs.
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