Sobia Siddique, BACP

Sobia Siddique is a UK-licensed therapist with six years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and challenges with self-esteem and confidence. She works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and family difficulties, grief, parenting and intimacy-related issues, as well as longer-term conditions such as bipolar disorder, ADHD and compassion fatigue. Her practice also addresses more specific areas like abandonment, attachment concerns, codependency, and the emotional impact of chronic illness.

Sobia brings a particular understanding of cultural and faith-based struggles for people from South Asian Muslim backgrounds, drawing on her own lived experience to offer sensitive, informed support where tradition and contemporary life can feel hard to balance. Her style is integrative and adaptive - blending humanistic, existential, attachment-based and cognitive-behavioural ideas to match each person’s needs. That may mean exploring meaning and identity at times, examining relationship patterns in others, or using practical tools to ease day-to-day strain when helpful.

She offers therapy in English and Urdu and accepts international clients. Sobia works with warmth, respect and compassion, meeting each person where they are and co-creating a plan that feels practical and supportive. She holds BACP membership, which indicates affiliation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Approaches that support online emotional and relational work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of connecting and responding to others. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and build more secure, trusting connections in everyday life.

Client-Centered Therapy places the person at the centre of the process, offering a non-directive, empathetic stance that helps clients explore their feelings, values and choices. This approach is useful for people seeking greater self-understanding, confidence and personal direction.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on the role of emotions within relationships and individual experience. It supports people to identify painful emotional patterns and to develop new, healthier ways of expressing needs and forming bonds.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey, and Sobia works collaboratively with clients to decide what fits best based on their needs, goals and preferences. She adapts methods over time so therapy remains relevant and responsive.

Online therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility — making it easier to schedule sessions around work, family or caregiving responsibilities and to maintain continuity when life changes. Many people find that remote sessions make it simpler to access registered professionals from different locations while preserving a consistent therapeutic relationship.