About Faryal
Faryal Choudry helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strains, grief, and low self-esteem. She is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida, holding an LCSW credential. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making hard conversations easier to begin.
Faryal uses plain talk and active listening to make clients feel heard. She encourages people to name what feels hard and to try small, practical steps between sessions. Sessions focus on real problems and realistic goals rather than jargon or long lectures.
Background and approach
Her background includes five years of professional experience working in clinical settings. That experience informs a flexible approach that borrows techniques from several therapies. She draws on attachment and emotion-focused ideas to address relationship patterns and hurt from loss.
Cognitive tools and behavioral steps are used when stress, anxiety, or addictive behaviors get in the way of daily life. Dialectical skills are offered to help regulate emotions and improve communication under pressure. The work is collaborative - the client and therapist choose what to try together.
Faryal also supports people facing specific concerns like abandonment, attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, codependency, and communication problems. She helps with practical matters around divorce, separation, forgiveness, and eating-related struggles. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled to fit different routines.
The aim is steady progress through manageable steps, with the therapist providing steady support and clear tools along the way.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections shape current relationships and emotional reactions. In online work this helps people notice repeating patterns and try different ways of relating to others. Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's experience and uses empathic listening to build trust and clarify goals; it is often a starting point for people who want a nonjudgmental place to talk.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they decide which methods to use. That collaborative planning means approaches can shift as progress is made or new issues arise.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well with lower bandwidth, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to choose the format that best supports steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English