Tahseen Rizvi, BACP

Tahseen Rizvi is a BACP counsellor who has practised in the United Kingdom for four years. She offers a calm, listening presence and helps people talk through stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and parenting concerns. Sessions are offered in English and Urdu, and she accepts international clients.

She aims to build an open space where people can share difficult thoughts and feelings without judgement. Tahseen encourages straightforward conversation about what is most pressing, whether that is sleep problems, mood struggles or coping after loss. She uses practical steps and reflective listening so clients feel understood and can try new ways of responding.

Tahseen blends several approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on attachment ideas to look at close relationships, client-centred work to follow the client’s lead, and cognitive behavioural tools for managing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Therapy sessions are shaped around what the client wants to achieve and how they prefer to work.

Her focus includes trauma and abuse recovery, addiction and compassion fatigue, and concerns such as body image, codependency and narcissism. Tahseen also addresses issues linked to separation, fatherhood, attachment difficulties and multicultural stressors. She aims to help people build more steady coping and clearer choices.

People usually find the early sessions are about making sense of problems and setting simple goals. From there the work can be short term and focused, or more open-ended according to what the client needs.

How Tahseen’s Approaches Work Online

Tahseen uses attachment-based ideas to explore how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. This approach helps when trust, abandonment or closeness are causing distress and aims to create safer ways of relating to others.

She also uses client-centred therapy, which places the person’s priorities at the centre of each session. The counsellor listens carefully and follows the client’s lead, helping people find their own solutions and build self-understanding.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tahseen will discuss goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before, then agree a plan. This is a collaborative process and can change over time as needs and goals shift.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to use audio. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare or travel and to continue progress when life is busy.