About Nadira
Nadira Akhtar helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and depression. She supports those facing relationship and family difficulties, problems with intimacy, and issues like addiction, sleep or eating concerns. Nadira also works with people coping with big life changes, career questions, or struggles with self-esteem and anger.
She believes each person knows their own story best and has strengths to draw on. Sessions focus on listening first, then building practical steps that suit the individual.
How Nadira works
Nadira uses straightforward techniques to reduce overwhelm and increase day-to-day coping skills. Her approach blends talking therapies with skills practice. She draws on client-centred ways of working to make space for what matters to the client.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and mindfulness tools are used where they fit the goals. Nadira has eight years of professional experience and holds BACP registration, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. That background informs her work and choice of tools in sessions.
In meetings she aims to be calm, direct and practical. People can expect a mix of supportive listening and focused exercises. The emphasis is on small, achievable changes that add up over time.
She offers sessions in English and accepts clients internationally. Work is arranged online by appointment and can include different formats to suit each person's needs.
Nadira lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Nadira works with
The areas below are the ones Nadira selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Nadira uses talking therapy online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating a respectful space where the client sets the agenda and the counsellor reflects what matters to them. This approach helps people gain clarity and trust their own decisions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and name emotions and how those feelings affect their close relationships and sense of self.Nadira treats finding the right way of working as a shared task. She will discuss different approaches and try options that match a person's needs, goals and preferences. Over the first few sessions she and the client check what helps most and adapt the plan together.
Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and visual rapport, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging gives space for brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and to continue when life is changing.
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