About Rajbinder
Rajbinder "Raj" Kalirai helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, or problems in relationships. She is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with eight years of experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Raj speaks English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, and accepts international clients.
Raj aims to make the first step easier. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult feelings and painful events.
How Rajbinder works
Sessions are practical and paced to the person, not rushed. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, grief and issues around intimacy. She also supports people dealing with parenting pressures, body image, career change and compassion fatigue.
Raj uses straightforward techniques to help people cope with life changes and build everyday skills. Raj draws on several well-known approaches to shape therapy, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based methods. She blends these to suit each person’s needs and goals.
Conversations focus on what is useful right now and on small steps that lead to change. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine. To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a session according to the therapist’s availability.
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What Rajbinder works with
The areas below are the ones Rajbinder 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Raj often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and helping people commit to actions that match their values. It can help with stress, anxiety and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and anger.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Raj will talk with someone about their goals and preferences and then suggest a way of working that feels manageable. She adapts techniques as sessions progress so the plan stays aligned with what the person needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit those with limited bandwidth. Live chat and messaging work well for brief updates, reflective notes or for people who prefer typing. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family or travel while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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