About Nisha
Nisha Irfan helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep problems, career worries and the distress of life changes. Nisha works with concerns including ADHD, bipolar experiences, compassion fatigue and sexuality-related questions.
She practises from a caring, relational place and aims to make sessions plain and steady. Nisha brings 12 years of experience and holds a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Nottingham.
How Nisha works
She is accredited with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP. This means she follows the BACP Ethical Framework and Professional Conduct Procedure in her work. Her practice draws on attachment-based and client-centred ideas that focus on understanding relationships and the person in front of her.
She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness to help change unhelpful thinking and manage strong feelings. For trauma-related distress Nisha offers eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing as one option alongside other trauma-informed interventions. Sessions aim to be practical.
People can expect calm, curiosity and clear ways to try in day-to-day life. Nisha may introduce simple exercises to regulate the nervous system or short tasks to test new coping skills between sessions. She works online with people in the United Kingdom in English.
Practical steps to begin are available through the site's matching and booking process.
Nisha lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Nisha works with
The areas below are the ones Nisha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. In online sessions this approach helps people notice patterns with partners or family and practise different ways of connecting. Client-centred therapy puts the person at the heart of the conversation and relies on empathy, listening and reflection to build understanding and self-trust. It is useful for people needing a steady, non-judgemental space to make sense of difficult emotions.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical techniques to reduce anxiety and depression. Online CBT can include short tasks, thought records and behavioural experiments that people try between sessions to test change.
Choosing an approach is usually collaborative. The therapist will listen to what matters most to the person, discuss options and agree on methods together. It is common to combine styles and adjust the plan as therapy progresses so it fits the client's goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and messaging or live chat are helpful for shorter updates or flexible scheduling. These formats make therapy more accessible and easier to fit around work, childcare or other commitments.
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