Faiza Malik, BACP

Faiza Malik is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with 27 years of experience. She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, relationship issues, eating and self-esteem difficulties, and parenting-related strain. Sessions are offered in English, Punjabi and Urdu, and she accepts international clients.

Her approach combines attachment-based work with client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural techniques. She focuses on helping people understand patterns in relationships and in how they manage feelings. This often involves looking at past attachment experiences and how they affect present-day responses.

Faiza describes using hypnotherapy alongside talking therapy when clients want to try a different way of addressing habits, motivation or unhelpful thinking. She also draws on emotionally-focused ideas to address intimacy and communication problems. In practice she helps people spot repetitive thoughts and try small changes between sessions.

Many clients come with addiction, grief, or family-of-origin concerns. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, or changes such as separation and divorce. Work can include practical coping skills, behavioural experiments, and re-framing of unhelpful self-beliefs.

Sessions tend to be goal-focused and paced to the person's needs. Faiza asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session. Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

How her approaches are used in online sessions