About Zahira
Zahira Virani offers a warm, person-centred approach to therapy. She is a BACP counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. Zahira speaks English and Gujarati and works from the United Kingdom.
She combines client-centred principles with attachment-focused ideas to help people feel understood and safe in sessions. Zahira also uses cognitive behavioural tools to tackle unhelpful thoughts and dialectical skills to manage strong emotions. Sessions are shaped with the person's goals in mind and are practical in focus.
How Zahira works
Zahira has six years of professional experience. She supports people dealing with grief, parenting challenges, addictions, trauma, and intimacy-related issues. Other areas she addresses include self-esteem, sleeping and eating difficulties, anger, career worry and compassion fatigue.
Her practice also covers concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, and blended family difficulties. Zahira works with people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image and codependency problems as well. In sessions she aims to offer a calm and empathetic space where feelings can be explored without judgement.
Conversations are straightforward and collaborative. Practical steps and coping strategies are developed together so clients can apply them between sessions. Therapy is available in a variety of remote formats.
Zahira helps clients decide which approach and tools will best fit their needs and daily life.
Zahira lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Zahira works with
The areas below are the ones Zahira selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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 and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- 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
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Gujarati |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that suit online work and everyday life
Attachment-based work focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. It helps people understand patterns in closeness, trust and conflict and is useful for relationship and attachment issues.Client-centred therapy puts the person at the heart of the session. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the client's pace, which helps people who need a calm space to talk through feelings and make their own choices.
Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful thinking. It often helps with anxiety, mood problems and sleep or eating difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Zahira will discuss different methods and tailor sessions to the client's needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process where decisions are made together based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face discussion, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins and text messaging can fit around busy days. These options make it easier to attend therapy around work, family responsibilities and daily life.
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