- Person-Centred approach
- Experience with grief
- Focus on identity
About Selena
Selena Zafar is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage life stressors and money-related worries alongside other challenges. She uses a warm, non-judgemental style to help clients talk through what matters most to them. Selena aims to work at each person’s pace and to set goals together. She holds BACP and has three years' experience in practice.
Selena follows Person-Centred Therapy, which means she treats the client as the expert on their life. Her role is to offer empathy, acceptance and a calm space to think things through. Sessions typically centre on listening, reflection and helping people feel safer naming difficult feelings.
Her background includes recent postgraduate study, which gives her up-to-date perspectives on student and young adult pressures. Selena also draws on her personal experience of having been in therapy herself. That experience informs how she offers support and companionship during hard times.
She brings particular attention to issues around identity and culture, drawing on a biracial and multi-faith family background. Selena also works with grief and bereavement concerns, stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, and matters connected to career and life change.
People who want straightforward, compassionate listening find her approach accessible. The focus is on practical conversations that help clients make sense of feelings, clarify choices and plan small next steps.
How Selina's Person-Centred Approach Works Online
Selena works from a Person-Centred framework that prioritises empathy, acceptance and collaborative goal-setting. This approach focuses on listening and reflection so people can explore worries, including stress, identity concerns and money-related strain, at their own pace.The counsellor role is to support rather than direct. Selena aims to help clients notice patterns, name feelings and decide on small steps forward. Together they choose what to focus on and adapt the pace to the person’s needs and preferences.
Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Selena will talk with each person about what they hope to achieve and try different ways of working until a good fit is found. The process is collaborative and shaped by the client’s goals and comfort.
The therapist's biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online sessions can help fit counselling into a busy life by reducing travel, allowing shorter check-ins around work breaks, or offering a way to meet when relocating between places. Registered or accredited professionals use online sessions to make therapy more accessible while keeping the focus on clear goals and steady progress.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does Selena help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression and grief as well as relationship and identity concerns. Financial and money-related worries are included among her focus areas.
What is her general therapeutic style?
She uses a Person-Centred approach that emphasises empathetic listening and collaboration. Sessions focus on helping people name feelings and set goals together.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has three years' experience as a counsellor and has completed recent postgraduate study. She also draws on her own experience of having attended therapy.
Where is Selena based and what credential does she hold?
She practises in the United Kingdom and is BACP. The profile lists BACP as the supplied credential.
Which languages are available for therapy with her?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are accepted as stated in the profile.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not specify formats. Please confirm current session options with the provider before booking.
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?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.