About Aisha
Aisha Tasneem offers straightforward, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or difficult life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely, helping people make sense of their situation and decide what matters most to them. Aisha works from a compassionate, person-centred stance and treats each session as a chance to find small, manageable steps forward.
With five years of practice, Aisha draws on a mix of well-established approaches.
How Aisha works
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses. Attachment-based ideas shape how she thinks about relationship and intimacy concerns. Aisha supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, and those struggling with addictions or eating-related issues.
She also helps with parenting stress, compassion fatigue, career decisions and self-esteem problems. Practical problems such as communication, commitment, control and blended-family tensions are within her remit. Sessions are offered in English and held online with options that include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which appears as BACP in her credentials. People can expect a collaborative process focused on real-life changes rather than jargon. Aisha helps set achievable goals and checks progress regularly, adapting the approach as needs shift.
Her aim is to make therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.
Aisha lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Aisha works with
The areas below are the ones Aisha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Aisha’s approaches work online
Aisha commonly combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT focuses on helping people connect with their values and accept difficult thoughts so they can take meaningful action. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and low mood.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to understand patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect intimacy and communication. That perspective can help when relationship history or attachment concerns make current problems harder to resolve. Together, these approaches give both practical tools and a way to talk about deeper relational themes.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk through options, try techniques in sessions and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. Goals, preferences and everyday constraints guide which methods are used and when to change course.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when video is not practical or bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, follow-ups or people who prefer typing to speaking. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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