Aishah Elgindy
Calm practical support for life
About Aishah
Aishah Elgindy helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and relationship or intimacy difficulties. She also supports people dealing with depression, addictions, parenting strain, eating and sleeping concerns, ADHD and identity questions related to LGBT issues. Aishah works with practical problems like communication breakdowns, family conflict and life changes.
She aims to make the first step feel manageable for a worried parent reading on a phone. Aishah is a registrant of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
She has practised as a counsellor for ten years and has worked in bereavement services within the NHS. She also has experience at a specialist antenatal centre supporting women and children through the perinatal period. Her approach is person-centred, which means sessions focus on the person's experience and priorities.
She combines this with solution-focused and trauma-informed ways of working, tailoring the process to what the person needs in the room. Practical support and short-term coaching may be part of her work when helpful. Aishah has several years' experience in mental health recovery and in supporting people after loss.
She has worked with clients diagnosed with autism spectrum conditions, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention difficulties, depression and anxiety. She understands the strain of family difficulties, domestic violence, separation and bereavement. Sessions with Aishah aim to be non-judgemental and straightforward.
She helps people name what is happening, try small changes and build coping skills. People can expect gentle challenge alongside practical tools to manage day-to-day pressures.
What Aishah works with
How Aishah works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Aishah works in a person-centred way that keeps the person's priorities at the centre of each session. This approach means the focus stays on the person's experience and what they want to change, whether that is managing anxiety, improving sleep or coping with grief. Sessions aim to be conversational and responsive rather than prescriptive.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice thoughts and bodily signs of stress. Mindfulness can support steadying emotions and improving sleep and concentration. Solution-focused methods are used to set small, achievable goals and to build practical steps that can be tried between meetings, which suits people wanting short-term, action-orientated work.
Finding the right mixture of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to agree what seems most helpful based on the person's needs, goals and preferences. That plan can shift as work progresses and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow a face-to-face style conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while fitting sessions around family life, work and other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
