About Faryal
Faryal Choudry is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship problems, grief, and low self-esteem. She offers straightforward support for coping with loss, building motivation, and improving confidence. Her approach aims to make the first steps toward change feel less overwhelming.
She creates a calm space where clients can say what they feel without judgment. Sessions focus on practical skills and clear goals. Conversations often include checking how the body is involved in emotion, and noticing patterns that keep someone stuck.
Background and approach
Faryal uses a mix of methods to match each person's needs. She draws from somatic work to help people notice bodily signals, and from cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Client-centered practices shape sessions so clients set the pace and priorities.
Her work also pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns that affect trust and connection. That helps when dealing with abandonment, communication problems, codependency, or difficulties after a breakup or divorce. She supports people facing family strain, caregiver stress, chronic pain or health challenges.
Faryal holds a LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and she practices in Florida. She has five years of professional experience and conducts therapy in English. She is available to work with international clients through online formats.
How Somatic and Attachment-Informed Methods Help Online
Somatic work focuses on the connection between body sensations and emotions. It teaches simple ways to notice physical signals like tension or breath changes and to use that awareness to manage stress and anxiety. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early connections shape trust, boundaries, and communication.Client-centered care puts the person in charge of what to work on and moves at their pace. Together these approaches can address grief, relationship struggles, addiction coping, and low self-esteem in a collaborative way. The therapist and client decide which methods feel most helpful, and that choice can change as progress is made.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions remove the need for video; live chat and text let people check in between sessions or use brief, real-time support. These options give flexibility for different comfort levels, schedules, and practical needs, while keeping the therapeutic focus on clear goals and skills you can use day to day.
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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