Faha MakhdumBACP

Faha Makhdum is a counsellor with 12 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and a BACP registration. She offers a calm, respectful approach and aims to tailor conversations and care to each person's needs. She often helps with stress, anxiety, low mood, and self-esteem concerns linked to life transitions. Her tone is compassionate and direct, and she encourages people to take that first brave step towards support.

In practice she focuses on practical ways to manage everyday stresses and emotional pain. She talks through relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and motivation or confidence struggles. She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction, sleep or eating problems, and ADHD-related challenges. Sessions aim to identify small, clear steps clients can try between meetings.

She has worked extensively with couples and can offer sessions relevant to relationship concerns, while also helping individuals facing family of origin issues, blended family tensions, and separation. Her additional focus areas include body image, caregiver stress, codependency, control and communication problems, and the emotional impact of illness such as cancer.

Faha adapts her style to the person in front of her. Conversations are collaborative and goal-focused, while remaining sensitive to difficult histories. She will work with clients to set realistic goals and practical coping strategies that fit everyday life.

To begin, people follow the site process to match with a counsellor and schedule sessions according to availability. Faha supports international clients and holds sessions in English.

Approaches that support pregnancy and parenting transitions online

Faha uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in a clear, practical way. One common approach is goal-focused work that helps people break overwhelming problems into manageable steps and daily practices to reduce anxiety and increase coping. This can be useful for stress around pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting.

Another helpful way she works is through relational conversations that look at how communication, boundaries and patterns affect close relationships. These sessions aim to improve connection, repair conflict and reduce the emotional strain that can come with major life changes like becoming a parent.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work collaboratively with each person to decide what fits best, using the client's goals and preferences to shape sessions. That might mean short practical check-ins, longer exploratory work, or a mix depending on needs.

If you are considering online therapy, please confirm the specific session formats available before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around appointments, rest needs, clinic visits or work, and it can reduce travel time. It also makes it possible to access a therapist from another region, which is helpful for international clients.