About Nadira
Nadira Akhtar is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and depression. She works with clients on relationship and family concerns, addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, and questions about identity and life purpose. Nadira aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She describes the person as the expert in their own story and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and straightforward. Nadira listens, reflects, and helps people try small changes that can make a difference in day-to-day life. Nadira has eight years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
That background informs a calm, respectful way of working that focuses on what the client wants to change. Her approach draws on client-centred work to follow the client’s pace, cognitive behavioural ideas to tackle unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and mindfulness practices to reduce rumination and stress. She also uses solution-focused techniques to set clear, manageable goals.
Sessions can include talking through difficult memories, practising new ways of relating to thoughts and feelings, and setting steps for life changes. Nadira offers a supportive space to try approaches that suit the person, with attention to values, relationships and practical coping skills.
Approaches that suit online sessions
Client-centred work focuses on listening and following the person’s pace. It helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to build confidence before trying new coping steps. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It is useful for stress, anxiety and low mood.The therapeutic approach is chosen together. Nadira will talk with the client about what feels most useful and try different methods as needed. That collaborative process means goals and techniques can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let someone check in between sessions or reflect in writing. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and fit around work, family or travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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