About Melisha
Melisha Pillay draws on her own journey through hardship to guide others toward greater confidence and self-worth. She holds a BACP accreditation and has practised for four years in the United Kingdom. Melisha builds sessions around respect, honesty and empathy so people feel safe to speak about what matters most to them.
She offers a gentle, practical style and often uses creative exercises to help people move from where they are to where they want to be.
How Melisha works
These activities are used alongside talking so people can access different ways of thinking and feeling. Melisha pays attention to personal values and helps clients use those values as a foundation for change. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including stress and anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addiction, bipolar disorder and ADHD.
She also supports people facing body image, career, sleep or eating difficulties, and those coping with chronic illness or caregiving strain. Sessions may also address abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, attachment issues, communication problems and blended family concerns.
Melisha integrates approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to suit each person’s needs. Melisha is open to working with people across the UK and internationally in English. She welcomes those who want a compassionate, values-driven counsellor and who prefer creative ways to make steady progress.
Melisha lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Melisha works with
The areas below are the ones Melisha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- 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 and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Melisha's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and then take actions that align with those values. It often involves simple experiential exercises and practical steps to handle painful thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships affect current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating to themselves and others.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Melisha will discuss goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before, and then recommend techniques from ACT, attachment work or client-centred listening. The plan can change as therapy progresses so it suits each person's needs.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which let people fit sessions around work, childcare or travel. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports short check-ins or ongoing contact between sessions. These formats give flexibility and make it easier to attend from different places while focusing on the therapeutic goals agreed with the therapist.
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