About Farhat
Farhat Hasan is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who focuses on practical, people-centered counseling. She draws on 17 years of experience to help clients handle stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Sessions are offered in English and Bengali so clients can use the language that feels most natural.
She trained in counseling at the University of Mississippi and earned an Educational Specialist degree in Counseling from Mississippi State University.
Background and approach
Hasan has worked in many settings including hospitals, schools, residential drug rehabilitation centers, inpatient and outpatient facilities, and group homes. That variety shaped a straightforward approach to common life problems. Her work emphasizes listening first, then helping people notice their strengths.
She uses a client-centered stance to build trust and make small, practical changes that add up. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral ideas to address thinking patterns that keep people stuck. Hasan supports people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strain, career stress, and attention-related challenges like ADHD.
She also addresses family of origin issues, blended family dynamics, communication problems, and coping with major life changes. In sessions she offers guidance, encouragement, and occasional challenge so clients can grow more independent. Her goal is to help each person leave with clear next steps and tools they can use between meetings.
For people wanting online options, she provides video, phone, chat, and text formats to fit different needs.
Using attachment, client-centered work, and CBT online
Farhat blends client-centered care with attachment-informed ideas and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when working online. Client-centered work means sessions begin by listening closely and following the person's pace, which helps build trust and clear goals. Attachment-informed approaches focus on patterns in close relationships and help people shift how they relate to others and to themselves. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers concrete exercises to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that ease anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then adapt techniques over time. That means sessions can move from gentle listening to practical skill-building when the client feels ready, and they check progress together as therapy continues.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can support quick reflections, ongoing check-ins, and homework between longer meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different time zones while working with licensed professionals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Bengali