Selena Zafar , BACP

Selena Zafar encourages clients to view investing in their wellbeing as an important and necessary step, and she offers steady support for each person’s individual path to greater self-understanding and resilience. Drawing on the Person-Centred Therapy approach developed by Carl Rogers, she places the client at the centre of the process - respecting that each person is the expert on their own life and creating an atmosphere of warmth, empathy and nonjudgement to facilitate growth.

Sessions with Selena are collaborative - she works with clients to set goals and shape the direction of counselling while honouring each person’s pace and unique needs. Her own experience of having been "in the other chair" inspired her training as a counsellor, and she is also a recent MSc graduate, which helps her relate to students and others balancing academic pressures.

As a biracial counsellor from multiple minority backgrounds and a multi-faith, multi-cultural family, she brings a lived perspective to identity and cultural matters. She specialises in bereavement, race-related issues and sports psychology, offering an understanding, culturally aware approach. Selena is a member of the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - a UK professional body that promotes standards and good practice in counselling and psychotherapy.

Person-Centred Approaches and Flexible Online Sessions

Selena practices Client-Centred Therapy, an approach that focuses on listening with empathy, accepting each person without judgement, and supporting clients to discover their own solutions. This style is helpful for people facing stress, identity questions, grief, relationship concerns and a wide range of emotional challenges because it emphasises the client’s own strengths and pace.

She also brings coaching-informed skills into her work, helping clients set practical goals, build coping strategies and make changes that align with their values. These techniques can be especially useful for issues like career decisions, motivation, or navigating life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic collaboration - Selena will work together with each client to determine what methods best match their needs, goals and preferences. Online therapy offers practical benefits for this process: video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions give an accessible alternative, and live chat or text-based messaging provide flexibility for busy schedules or shorter check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life while maintaining continuity of care with licensed professionals and therapists.