Areeb Cheema
Understanding, practical counselling support
About Areeb
Areeb Cheema offers supportive, straightforward counselling for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or relationship strain. He writes simply and listens carefully so parents and individuals can talk through what is worrying them and take small, manageable steps forward. He focuses on common life pressures such as depression, anger, addictions and coping with big changes.
He also helps with parenting concerns, intimacy-related problems, and issues linked to trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
The aim is practical progress rather than jargon-filled sessions. Areeb uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions, tailoring the work to each person’s needs. He works collaboratively, helping clients set goals and try out new ways of thinking or behaving between meetings.
Sessions are framed around what will make daily life feel more manageable. He is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and has four years of professional experience. His background includes supporting people with attachment and codependency concerns, fatherhood and fertility issues, and problems connected to money or cultural identity.
Sessions can address specific diagnoses like panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive patterns, postpartum depression and post-traumatic stress, or focus on broader concerns such as self-esteem and coping strategies. Areeb aims to create an atmosphere of respect and sensitivity where people can speak openly and work towards change.
What Areeb works with
Sessions & fees
How evidence-based approaches work online
Areeb uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach is problem-focused work that helps people break large worries into smaller, manageable steps and build coping skills for anxiety, panic or stress. Another approach involves trauma-informed strategies that gently address past harm, stabilise reactions and support recovery from abuse or post-traumatic stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and therapist make these decisions collaboratively so the therapy fits the person and their life.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and text-based messaging supports short, ongoing contact between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, childcare or travel and make it easier to keep continuity of care.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
