Nisha Irfan
Compassionate trauma-informed counsellor
About Nisha
Nisha Irfan helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, depression and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports those dealing with sleep problems, parenting strain, career stress, ADHD and compassion fatigue. Nisha is based in the United Kingdom and works in English.
Her style is warm and human-centred. She aims to build a trusting space where people can talk honestly about what feels hard. Sessions are trauma-informed and focus on both feelings and practical steps people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Nisha trained to a Masters level in counselling and psychotherapy at the University of Nottingham. She holds a Diploma in Clinical Supervision from the Centre for Personal and Professional Development. Her registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, reflects that she meets their standards.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. That can include attachment-based work to look at early relationship patterns, cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts and EMDR for distressing memories. Mindfulness and client-centred methods are used to increase self-awareness and emotional presence.
In practical terms, Nisha combines talking therapy with body-focused tools. She is a provider of tension, trauma and stress releasing exercises, known as TRE, which aims to ease muscular tension and reduce nervous-system arousal. This complements her other therapeutic tools when trauma or chronic tension are present.
What Nisha works with
How Nisha works
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Sessions & fees
How Nisha’s approaches work in online therapy
Nisha uses attachment-based work to look at relational patterns that affect feelings of safety and trust. This helps people understand why certain reactions happen in close relationships and develop new ways of relating. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviours to reduce anxiety and low mood. It is practical and goal-focused, often with tasks to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together they will choose methods that suit the person’s needs. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed, phone sessions use less data and can be easier on busy days, and chat or messaging is useful for quick check-ins or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family commitments or mobility constraints while keeping the focus on the work people want to do.
| 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
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
