Alisha Chainani
Helping you understand patterns and feel steadier
About Alisha
Alisha Chainani offers calm, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low self-esteem or big life changes. She works with adults who want help understanding relationship patterns, coping with cultural displacement, or managing attention differences like ADHD. The tone is warm and collaborative, with a focus on practical steps and clearer thinking.
Alisha views the relationship with each client as central to change. She draws on ideas from Transactional Analysis while keeping conversations straightforward.
Background and approach
Sessions often look at how early experiences shape current behaviour and relationships. Practical work may include spotting unhelpful patterns, building self-compassion, and naming difficult emotions. Her approach is relational and steady rather than quick fixes.
She aims to create a space where people can try out new ways of relating to themselves and others. Clients can expect a mix of gentle challenge and clear reflection aimed at achievable shifts. Alisha holds NCPS, which stands for the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society.
She has three years of professional experience working with a variety of emotional and relational concerns. Her training includes Transactional Analysis and she is completing a master’s degree related to that approach. Sessions are available in English and run via video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
What Alisha works with
Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Alisha draws on Transactional Analysis to help people recognise and change recurring ways of relating to themselves and others. This approach looks at the roles and scripts people adopt, and helps make those patterns easier to see and adjust. It can be useful for relationship difficulties, identity concerns and feeling stuck in repeated behaviours.She also uses relational work that pays attention to the here-and-now of the therapeutic relationship. This means noticing how you and the therapist interact in session and using that information to inform change. That way of working can help with attachment issues, communication problems and feelings of emptiness.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options with each client and adapt methods to fit individual goals and preferences. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so the work can be adjusted over time.
Online therapy is offered by registered or accredited professionals via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation across distances, phone calls can suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging can be used for ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and travel 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
- 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
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
