About Kalpna
Kalpna Kerai uses a people-centred approach to help clients who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or life changes. She combines attentive listening with practical steps to build coping skills. Kalpna is a BACP counsellor with 13 years of experience in the United Kingdom.
She supports people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps those dealing with relationship and intimacy-related issues, career pressures, anger and compassion fatigue.
How Kalpna works
Other areas of focus include ADHD, body image issues, chronic health concerns and caregiver stress. Kalpna creates an open, non-judgemental space where feelings can be spoken about plainly. Sessions aim to identify clear priorities and small, manageable changes.
She blends conversation with goal-setting so people can track progress between meetings. Her practice draws on attachment-based and client-centred ideas to build trust and clarify personal values. She also uses solution-focused and motivational techniques when people want short-term practical changes.
Existential perspectives help with bigger questions about meaning and direction. People can expect a straightforward and warm style in sessions. The approach is collaborative - Kalpna works with each person to shape what therapy looks like for them.
She has supported clients through a wide range of challenges over more than a decade in practice.
Kalpna lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Kalpna works with
The areas below are the ones Kalpna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Working with attachment and solution-focused ways online
Attachment-based work concentrates on building a trusting connection that helps people feel understood and safer to talk about difficult emotions. It can be useful for those with relationship or abandonment concerns and for people who want steadier patterns in how they relate to others.Client-centred therapy focuses on empathic listening and following the person's pace. It helps when someone needs space to make sense of feelings, increase self-esteem or decide on next steps without pressure.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss aims, preferences and what feels most helpful, then tailor the mix of approaches together with the client. That collaborative process helps make therapy feel relevant and manageable.
Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to match different practical needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and non-verbal cues, phone can fit a shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits people who prefer written reflection or flexible timing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on progress and clarity.
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