- Years in practice
- 3
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Selena
Selena Zafar offers calm, steady support for parents juggling stress and change. She writes plainly and listens carefully, helping people untangle overwhelming feelings and find small, practical steps forward. Selena aims to create a non-judgemental space where people can speak honestly about parenting strain, relationships, grief and identity concerns.
She uses a person-centred approach that centres the client’s own experience. That means the person’s priorities shape each session, and Selena focuses on warmth, empathy and acceptance rather than giving directives.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a client’s pace and focus on what matters most right now. Selena trained to counsellor level and holds an MSc as well as BACP registration. Her background includes personal experience of therapy and life in a multicultural, multi-faith family, which informs her understanding of identity and cultural pressures.
She brings three years of professional practice to her work. Typical concerns she helps with include stress, anxiety, depression, parenting pressures, bereavement, self-esteem and career worries. She also supports people with relationship and intimacy questions, body image and issues linked to adoption and foster care.
Sessions are conversational and reflective. Clients can expect listening, gentle questioning and collaborative goal-setting. Practical coping ideas and short-term strategies are offered where they fit the person’s goals and daily life.
What Selena works with
Everything Selena lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Selena helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Selena lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Person-centred approaches and flexible online therapy
Client-centred therapy places the person seeking help at the centre of the work. The counsellor listens with empathy and reflects what is said so the client can better understand their feelings. This approach helps with issues such as anxiety, parenting stress, grief and identity questions by giving people space to name what matters most to them.Finding the best approach is part of the process. The therapist will check in about goals, preferences and what has helped before, and then collaborate on a plan. That may include short-term coping strategies, reflective listening or practical goal-setting tailored to the client’s life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video lets people see non-verbal cues and work in a conversational way. Phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit around work or caregiving. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflections or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
Questions people ask about Selena
What concerns does Selena commonly work with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting pressures, grief, self-esteem and related issues such as body image and career worries.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She practises client-centred therapy, which means sessions focus on the client’s own priorities and pace, emphasising empathy and non-judgemental listening.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has three years of professional experience and an MSc, alongside the personal experience of having received therapy herself.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She is based in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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