About Melisha
Melisha Pillay is a counsellor who draws on personal experience to guide others towards more confident, freer lives. She holds BACP registration with four years of practice and offers sessions in English from the United Kingdom. Melisha emphasises empathy, honesty and trust in every meeting and creates a calm space for people to begin the work they need.
She believes in starting from the inside so clients can explore things they find hard to say aloud.
Background and approach
Melisha uses creative interventions alongside talking. These techniques aim to engage different parts of the mind and help people move from where they are now to where they want to be more quickly. Her work covers a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions and self-esteem.
She also supports people dealing with grief, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strain, career questions and coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, chronic illness and caregiver stress. Melisha blends practical tools with an open, non-judgemental presence.
She honours each person’s beliefs and can work within Christian counselling or other faith perspectives when that matters to the client. Sessions are flexible and are shaped by what the person brings to the room. Her aim is straightforward: help people recover a sense of worth and freedom so daily life feels more manageable.
Melisha invites potential clients to start with a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions that suit their schedule.
Approaches that guide online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without being led by them, then make choices that align with what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and getting unstuck.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand connection and trust issues and improve how they relate to others.
Melisha uses these approaches alongside client-centred listening to shape a collaborative plan. She works with each person to decide which methods feel most useful, matching tools to goals and preferences rather than imposing a single way of working.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls suit longer conversations and visual connection, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, while chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around busy days and changing routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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