Abida Haroon

Abida Haroon is a BACP counsellor who offers supportive, non-judgemental therapy for people facing life changes and emotional strain. She focuses on helping people make sense of stress, anxiety, relationship strain and grief. Abida speaks English, Punjabi and Urdu and works with clients across the United Kingdom and internationally.

Abida aims to create a calm space where people can speak honestly about what’s worrying them. She listens closely and tries to understand each person’s point of view. Sessions are used to build resilience, increase self-acceptance and strengthen confidence so people can make clearer choices in their lives.

Her work often includes helping people recover from trauma and abuse and addressing attachment or intimacy-related concerns. Abida also supports those coping with workplace pressures, parenting stress, sleep and eating difficulties, and feelings of emptiness or low self-worth. Divorce and separation is one of the issues she lists as a focus area.

She uses a mix of practical and reflective approaches. Together with clients she explores small steps and solutions, while also attending to deeper emotional patterns and past wounds that affect current behaviour. Mindfulness exercises and trauma-focused techniques are used when these suit the person’s needs.

Abida draws on six years of experience to tailor sessions to each person’s background and culture. People who prefer to work in Punjabi or Urdu can do so. To begin, readers are invited to follow the site’s Start Therapy process to match and schedule a first session.

How Abida’s approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. It helps people feel heard and supported while they make their own choices. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people identify and change emotional responses that cause pain. Mindfulness Therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices to reduce anxiety and increase calm.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Abida works collaboratively to decide what fits best with the client’s goals, background and preferences. That may mean trying a few techniques early on and tailoring the mix as therapy progresses.

Session formats are not specified in the supplied biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a lunch break, or making it possible to meet from different locations. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises, mindfulness practices and trauma-informed pacing for remote sessions so the work remains practical and goal-focused.