Arham Abtahi
Compassionate, attachment-focused counselling
About Arham
Arham Abtahi uses a relational, attachment-informed approach to therapy. She combines gentle curiosity with practical tools to help people manage anxiety, low mood, trauma, and life transitions. Arham holds BACP accreditation which guides her practice in the United Kingdom and she brings six years of clinical experience to her work.
Arham focuses on understanding how early relationships affect current feelings and behaviours. Sessions look at patterns like avoidance, codependency, or difficulties with commitment and communication.
Background and approach
She helps people untangle issues such as abandonment, attachment wounds, dissociation and domestic violence impacts in clear, step-by-step ways. Her style is client-centred and collaborative. Conversations are aimed at making sense of what causes distress, and at developing practical coping strategies.
Techniques draw on mindfulness to manage overwhelming emotions and motivational interviewing to clarify goals and build momentum. Arham also supports people dealing with body image concerns, self-esteem issues, grief, anger and career-related stress. She pays attention to family of origin issues and how those histories shape current relationships and feelings of emptiness or control problems.
Sessions may include exploring personal stories, reflecting on patterns, and practising mindful skills that help day-to-day functioning. People are encouraged to set the pace and focus on realistic steps toward change. The overall aim is clearer self-understanding and more effective ways of coping.
Therapy is offered in English and is open to clients inside and outside the United Kingdom. Arham welcomes people who want to work on long-term change or who need short-term coaching to handle a specific challenge.
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Sessions & fees
Attachment and client-centred approaches online
Arham combines attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to help people understand patterns that repeat in relationships and daily life. Attachment-based work looks at early relationship experiences and how they shape trust, intimacy and responses to stress; it can help with abandonment fears, commitment issues and attachment wounds. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's own experience in the moment, providing a respectful, non-directive space to talk through feelings and decide what matters most.She also draws on mindfulness to help people notice and manage intense emotions in everyday situations. These approaches are used together rather than in isolation, and Arham will explore with each person which methods feel most helpful. Deciding the right mix is a collaborative process based on the client's goals, history and preferences rather than a fixed formula.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and work closely on relational patterns, while phone sessions are useful when connections need less bandwidth or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging can suit ongoing coaching, brief reflections between sessions, or times when writing helps people find clarity. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
