Zara Whiteley
Compassionate counsellor for everyday life struggles
About Zara
Zara Whiteley is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with three years of practice in the UK. She focuses on practical support for everyday struggles like stress, anxiety and depression. Zara speaks English and works with people from different backgrounds, including international clients.
She prefers a straightforward talking approach that centres on each person's concerns and goals. Sessions are shaped around what matters to the individual, whether that is adjusting to a life change, managing grief, or dealing with relationship and intimacy issues.
Background and approach
Zara also supports people facing career pressures, compassion fatigue, and self-esteem difficulties. Her work draws on client-centred listening, existential thinking about meaning and choices, and motivational conversation to help people find forward steps. She often uses solution-focused tools to set small, achievable goals.
Conversations are adapted to the person rather than fitting everyone to the same method. Zara has additional experience with blended family challenges, caregiving stress, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, fertility and caregiver issues, and concerns such as jealousy or infidelity. She is familiar with trauma, abuse, ADHD-related difficulties, and issues connected to LGBT identity and HIV / AIDS.
Her practical aim is to help people feel less stuck and more able to cope. She encourages honest discussion about what is working and what needs to change, then agrees simple steps clients can try between sessions.
What Zara works with
How Zara works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches adapted for online therapy
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following what matters most to the person. It helps with feeling heard, building self-awareness and deciding next steps when dealing with stress, relationships or low mood.Existential therapy looks at meaning, choice and responsibility. It can help people who are wrestling with life changes, career crossroads, grief or feelings of emptiness by naming values and options.
Motivational interviewing is a brief, conversational way to explore readiness for change. It supports people who want to tackle habits, motivation, or ambivalence about decisions in their life.
Choosing the right approach is a shared task. Zara will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that suit those aims. She adapts techniques as progress is made, checking in regularly about what helps.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow full face-to-face discussion, phone sessions work well with lower bandwidth or when not on camera, and live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, caregiving or travel commitments.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
