Maryia Farooq, BACP

Maryia Farooq is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with adults on common pressures at home and at work, including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain and parenting concerns. She also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, addictions and changes such as separation or career shifts.

Maryia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and concentrates on practical, everyday steps people can try between sessions. She respects that each person knows their own story and looks for the strengths someone already has. Sessions focus on clear goals and on what helps a person feel more able to cope with day-to-day demands.

Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image and eating-related struggles, fertility and caregiver stress. She also addresses communication and control problems, and the emotional fallout of divorce, domestic violence and bereavement. This means she often helps people untangle how past experiences affect present routines and relationships.

Sessions tend to be conversational and pragmatic. Maryia listens to what a person brings and suggests small experiments or different ways of coping to try between meetings. She will work with a client to set realistic steps and check progress over time.

For people considering therapy, she asks for a short initial account of current difficulties. That helps set a first session agenda and decide goals for subsequent meetings.

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