Dr. Saf Buxy
Calm practical therapy for everyday struggles
About Saf
Dr. Saf Buxy helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. He also supports those facing relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, career setbacks, and major life changes.
He works with LGBT concerns and offers guidance around eating and sleeping difficulties and compassion fatigue. He has 20 years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. His approach is calm and practical.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, achievable steps. He listens closely and adapts conversations to what each person needs in the moment. Expect straightforward talk about patterns, coping strategies, and ways to build motivation and confidence.
Dr. Buxy tailors the plan to the individual. That can mean learning new ways to manage anxiety, addressing past trauma at a pace someone can handle, or working on daily routines that improve sleep and mood.
He pays attention to attachment and communication problems that often underlie relationship and family challenges. Over two decades he has supported people through losses, abandonment issues, adoption and foster care questions, and complex personality-related difficulties. He combines practical coping tools with longer-term work on self-worth and decision-making.
His style aims to be respectful, sensitive and compassionate. Sessions are offered in English and are available to clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
What Saf works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Two evidence-based approaches commonly used in this type of work are practical skills-based therapy and trauma-informed talking therapy. Practical skills-based therapy focuses on teaching coping strategies, problem-solving and routine changes to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage cravings. Trauma-informed talking therapy creates a careful, paced conversation about past hurts and safety, helping people process difficult memories without rushing them.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together they will choose methods that suit current needs. That collaborative planning can mean starting with short skills sessions and moving to deeper trauma work if and when the person feels ready.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people see face to face, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days, live chat allows short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
