About Nahid
Nahid Aghili is a BACP-registered counsellor with 17 years of practice. She speaks English, Persian and Italian and brings a warm, down-to-earth presence to sessions. She welcomes people facing difficult life changes and emotional pain.
Nahid focuses on building a trusting relationship first. She believes being heard and respected helps people open up. She balances empathic listening with gentle reality checks to help clients move forward.
Her work covers many concerns, including relationship and intimacy issues, grief and loss, parenting stresses, depression, anxiety and trauma.
How Nahid works
She also supports people dealing with work and career pressures, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem and compassion fatigue. Nahid uses approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy. Sessions aim to clarify values, improve emotional connection and build practical coping skills rather than rely on labels.
People who choose Nahid often want a calm space to talk things through and try small, realistic changes. She adapts pace to each person and combines listening with practical problem solving. Her multicultural background and language skills can help clients who prefer English, Persian or Italian.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions. Nahid works with a subscription model where session cost varies by location and therapist availability and can be cancelled at any time.
Nahid lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Nahid works with
The areas below are the ones Nahid selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English, Italian, Persian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps that match those values to build a more meaningful life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in important relationships and how those early patterns affect current closeness and trust. It can help people improve emotional bonds and resolve long-standing relationship hurts. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nahid will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit. Together they decide whether ACT, attachment work or an emotion-focused route is the best way forward, and they adjust as progress is made. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps. Phone sessions work well when video is difficult or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer to write, need brief support between sessions, or want to fit therapy around a busy day. Registered or accredited professionals can deliver these approaches effectively online, and the range of formats makes it easier to find a rhythm that fits each person’s life.Start online instead of waiting
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