About Alisha
Alisha Chainani meets people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She offers calm, steady support for worries about stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, ADHD and major life changes. Her manner is warm and collaborative and she aims to help people feel understood from the first session.
Alisha has three years of experience supporting people with identity struggles and relational patterns that repeat. She has worked with those facing cultural displacement, family of origin issues, and complicated emotions like shame, guilt or jealousy.
How Alisha works
Her background includes helping people untangle expectations from inside and outside their lives. Her approach is relational and practical. She pays attention to how the therapist-client relationship shapes change and uses that connection to try new ways of relating.
Sessions may involve looking at patterns of behaviour, naming hard feelings, and practising kinder ways of talking to yourself. Alisha’s training includes Transactional Analysis, a model that helps explain how people interact with themselves and others. Work might focus on early life experiences, attachment wounds, or developing more self-compassion.
She holds the NCPS credential, which appears as NCPS. Therapy with Alisha moves at a steady pace and avoids quick fixes. She helps people explore what matters and then plans small, manageable steps.
People who want a respectful, relational space for change may find her style helpful.
What Alisha works with
The areas below are the ones Alisha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy helps
Transactional Analysis helps map how people relate to themselves and others by naming common patterns of behaviour and interaction. Using this model, a therapist helps identify repeated roles and scripts so people can try different responses and break unhelpful cycles.Relational work focuses on the connection between therapist and client. It uses the relationship in sessions to notice how past patterns turn up now, and then practice new ways of being that feel more supportive and steady.
Finding the right approach is part of the journey and will be explored together. The therapist will work collaboratively to match techniques and goals to the person’s needs, adjusting the focus as understanding grows and priorities change.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video suits deeper conversations and face-to-face feeling. Phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or messaging can fit short check-ins, reflective writing or times when a quieter, text-based option is easier to manage.
These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and travel, while keeping the focus on building consistent, meaningful progress with a registered or accredited professional.
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