About Alisha
Alisha Chainani is a counsellor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety and relationship strain. She also supports those facing low self-esteem, life changes and the challenges of living with ADHD. Her approach aims to be warm and collaborative so people feel heard from the start.
Alisha draws on three years of practice and registration with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). She frames the relationship between counsellor and client as a key part of the work.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding how past experiences link to current patterns, and on practical steps to feel steadier day to day. Her background includes work with people experiencing identity questions, cultural displacement and long-standing behavioural patterns. Conversations may cover early family experiences, repeating relationship dynamics, or the overwhelm of competing expectations.
The emphasis is on making sense of these patterns rather than quick fixes. In session Alisha aims to help clients notice thoughts and behaviours that keep them stuck. That could mean building self-compassion, naming difficult emotions, or practising new ways to communicate.
She describes her style as respectful and steady, and guides people through change at a manageable pace. Alisha is completing the final year of an MSc in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy. Her training informs how she looks at relationships with oneself and others.
If someone is ready to explore what sits behind their anxiety or relationship struggles, she offers a supportive place to begin.
Therapeutic approaches and working online
Alisha's practice is informed by Transactional Analysis, which looks at how people relate to themselves and others and helps identify repeating patterns in relationships and behaviour. This approach can help with anxiety, communication problems and recurring relationship dynamics by making patterns clearer and easier to change.She also uses relational ways of working that place the counsellor-client connection at the centre of therapy. This means sessions pay attention to what happens between people in the room and use that information to support emotional understanding and healthier ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try out methods, and adjust plans based on what feels most helpful. Sessions usually explore how past experiences link to present struggles while building practical steps to reduce anxiety and improve coping.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to access this work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can fit quick check-ins or moments when writing feels safer. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on progress and accessibility.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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