Faith Chideya , AASW

Faith Chideya is an AASW social worker with four years' experience helping people manage anxiety, depression and difficult life changes. She works online with people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck or unsure how to move forward. Faith uses a steady, compassionate style and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.

Faith often helps people who are dealing with trauma, relationship patterns, stress and low self-esteem. She also supports those facing grief, addictions, sleep problems and career pressures. She pays attention to how past experiences influence current behaviour and relationships.

Her sessions are collaborative and straightforward. She listens first, then discusses goals and small, achievable changes. Sessions include learning new coping skills, noticing unhelpful thought patterns, and practising different ways of responding to strong emotions.

Faith blends several approaches to suit each person’s needs, drawing on cognitive behavioural techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused thinking and person-centred ways of working. This mix helps address unhelpful thoughts, painful memories and relationship patterns that keep recurring.

People who prefer a calm, practical clinician may find her approach helpful. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. To begin, visitors complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

How Faith's approaches work for online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing difficult thoughts without getting ruled by them and choosing actions that match personal values. It can help when anxiety, low mood or avoidance get in the way of everyday life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour to break cycles that fuel depression and anxiety. It often involves short practical exercises and experimenting with new behaviours between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and trust, which is useful for people who struggle with closeness or repeating unhealthy relationship patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences, and then suggest which methods to try. That plan is reviewed and adjusted as therapy progresses, so the work stays relevant and achievable.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth work and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in writing between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity during life changes.