About Rani
Rani Sagar is a Humanistic psychotherapeutic counsellor who focuses on helping people understand their thoughts, feelings and patterns. She creates a trusting space where people can talk about difficult emotions and begin to feel more accepting of themselves. She uses a pluralistic approach, which means she draws on several methods to match what each person needs.
That can look like exploring attachment patterns, talking through relationship or intimacy issues, and learning practical ways to manage anxiety or stress.
How Rani works
Rani has four years of experience working with concerns such as depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and addictions. She also helps with career worries, self-esteem difficulties, sleep and eating issues, and the strain that comes from caregiving and chronic illness. Her training is recognised by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP.
That credential appears alongside her therapeutic work and informs her practice style. Sessions tend to focus on what is happening in a person's life now and how past experiences shape current relationships and reactions. Rani blends talking, reflective exercises and mindfulness to build awareness and practical coping skills.
People can expect calm, straightforward conversation aimed at clarifying goals and finding steps forward. She supports international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
Rani lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Rani works with
The areas below are the ones Rani selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Rani draws on attachment-based work to help people see how early relationship patterns affect current connections and reactions. This approach can be useful for those who notice repeating relationship problems, fears of abandonment or difficulty trusting others.She also uses client-centred methods, which emphasise listening without judgement and helping people find their own solutions. That style is often paired with mindfulness techniques to teach simple breathing and grounding practices that reduce stress and improve focus.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rani will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together they will decide which methods to try. Plans can be adjusted as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be better when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit shorter check-ins or those who prefer writing. These options aim to give flexibility and consistent access to a therapist regardless of location.
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