About Zahira
Zahira Virani is a counsellor who blends humanistic and evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety. She works in English and Gujarati and brings six years of recent practice to her sessions. Zahira aims to create a calm, welcoming space where people can talk about difficult feelings and take small steps forward.
Her way of working is flexible and collaborative. She draws on client-centred principles to listen closely and build trust.
Background and approach
She also uses approaches such as attachment-based work and cognitive behavioural techniques to help people understand patterns and try new ways of responding. Zahira has experience supporting people with relationship issues, grief, parenting concerns, addictions, sexual and intimacy-related problems, low self-esteem and sleep or eating worries.
She also helps those facing career decisions, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges and the stresses of life change. She describes sessions as a place for practical problem-solving as well as emotional processing. Conversations often include exploring relationship patterns, managing anxious thinking, and practising coping skills to handle day-to-day pressure.
People meet Zahira for one-to-one work through a mix of formats. Her focus is on working with each person to set achievable goals and find approaches that feel right for them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how past and current relationships shape feelings and trust. Online sessions use conversation and reflection to spot recurring patterns and try new ways of connecting with others and oneself.Client-centred counselling places the person at the heart of the room. The counsellor listens without judgement, helping people name what matters and decide their next steps. This approach supports issues like low self-esteem, life transitions and relationship worries.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Zahira will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. Sessions can be adjusted over time so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be a good option when a stable internet connection is not available. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins or moments when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and to maintain continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Gujarati
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