Prerna Nautiyal
Responsive counsellor for life transitions
About Prerna
Prerna Nautiyal helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. She supports those facing trauma, grief, addiction and intimacy-related difficulties. Prerna also works with people dealing with parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, anger and low self-esteem.
She speaks English, Bengali and Hindi and is based in the United Kingdom. Prerna uses a person-centred style that keeps conversations focused on what matters to each client. She creates a calm space to talk through practical worries and emotional patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build clearer understanding and small steps clients can try between meetings. Her approach includes mindfulness practices to help with overwhelm and attention, and narrative work to help people reframe difficult experiences. She also draws on somatic and trauma-focused ideas when past events affect the body or daily functioning.
Sessions are adapted to each person rather than following one strict method. Prerna has five years of experience and holds BACP accreditation. She balances her counselling role alongside another job and offers set time slots during the week.
Clients can expect direct, respectful conversation and a focus on realistic coping strategies. People who choose Prerna often want help with career stress, ADHD-related difficulties, family conflict dynamics, attachment and abandonment issues, or problems with body image and self-worth. Her work aims to make daily life easier and to help people move toward goals at a manageable pace.
What Prerna works with
How Prerna works
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Sessions & fees
How these approaches work online
Prerna uses client-centred therapy to keep the focus on each person's needs and goals. In practice this means sessions are led by what the client brings, with the therapist asking clarifying questions and offering reflections to help people find their own solutions.She also uses mindfulness techniques to develop calmer attention and reduce high arousal. Simple breathing and grounding exercises are taught and practised in sessions to help with anxiety, sleep problems and stress. Narrative therapy is used to review life stories and shift unhelpful self-beliefs by looking at events from new angles and identifying strengths.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that suit the client's needs, goals and preferences. Decisions are made together and adjusted as progress is observed.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, which makes it easier to fit counselling around work and family life. Phone sessions can be useful when video is not possible, and text-based options suit short check-ins or people who prefer typing. These formats give flexibility in scheduling and make regular contact easier for many people.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Bengali, Hindi
