About Selena
Selena Zafar welcomes people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to begin. She offers calm, non-judgemental support to help people sort out anxiety, depression, relationship and identity concerns. Sessions are aimed at making small, practical changes that help day-to-day life feel more manageable.
Selena uses a person-centred approach and treats each person as the expert in their own life. She listens closely and reflects back what she hears so people can understand their feelings more clearly.
How Selena works
Together they set goals and move at a pace that feels right. She trained to be a counsellor after experiencing therapy herself, and she holds a BACP credential, which is shown as BACP. Selena also completed a Master of Science, which helps her relate to students and academic pressures.
Her background includes work with identity, cultural issues and bereavement. Her experience includes supporting people with stress, grief, addictions, trauma and questions about sexuality and identity. She also addresses parenting strains, eating and body image concerns, career stress and coping with life changes.
Additional areas of focus include attachment, blended family dynamics and adoption and foster care issues. Sessions are offered in English and she works with people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling once a suitable time is found.
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What Selena works with
The areas below are the ones Selena selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Person-centred care and online access
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens without judgement, reflects what they hear and helps the person make sense of their feelings. This approach suits concerns such as anxiety, grief, relationship and identity questions because it focuses on the person’s own experience.Selena will work collaboratively to find the right approach for each person. She will talk with you about your goals, preferences and how you like to work, then adapt sessions as needed. Finding the best fit is part of the therapeutic process and decisions are made together.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual contact helps. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing or need support between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and daily life, and to keep continuity when travel or relocation occurs.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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