About Nisha
Nisha Irfan is a counsellor with 12 years' experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression and low self-esteem. She helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career stress and issues linked to sexuality and LGBT identity. Parents reading on a phone will find clear, straightforward language and a calm presence in her work.
Nisha works in a relational, humanistic way that values connection and being heard.
Background and approach
She uses somatic ideas to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and to ease physical tension that keeps feelings stuck. Cognitive behavioural tools are used when thinking patterns are part of the struggle. She holds a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Nottingham and has accreditation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Nisha also completed a Diploma in Clinical Supervision from the Centre for Personal and Professional Development, CPPD. Her practice is trauma informed and includes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, alongside body-based work. She offers exercises aimed at releasing tension and calming the nervous system to complement talking therapy.
Nisha aims to help people in practical, manageable steps. Sessions focus on what is most pressing now, and on building tools to cope with change, grief, sleep problems, ADHD-related struggles, seasonal mood shifts and compassion fatigue. She uses everyday language and meets people where they are.
How therapy methods translate online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how stress and emotions show up in the body. Online sessions can guide gentle body awareness, grounding exercises and movement practices to ease tension and support emotional calm. This approach can be useful for anxiety, trauma-related tension and sleep difficulties.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and how early bonds shape current patterns. In online sessions this involves talking about connection, mapping relationship dynamics and building new ways of relating that feel safer and more supported. It can help with intimacy issues, codependency and family of origin concerns.
Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the heart of the session. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps the person find their own solutions. Together the therapist and client decide which methods fit best, so the plan changes as needs and goals become clearer.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit counselling into busy lives. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions let people join from anywhere, and live chat or text messaging offer short, flexible check-ins. These formats make it possible to continue steady work on trauma, anxiety, grief or relationship patterns without long journeys, and they allow the therapist to adapt tools to each person's preferences and daily routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English