Arham Abtahi, BACP

Arham Abtahi uses a relational, attachment-informed approach to therapy. She focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and patterns. Arham works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports people facing grief, life changes and career concerns.

Her practice draws on client-centred and existential ideas to keep sessions practical and person-focused. Sessions look at what matters to the individual and what gets in the way of moving forward. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are used to help people notice stubborn habits and find small, workable changes.

Arham has six years of experience and holds BACP accreditation, which she lists as BACP. Her background includes work with people affected by domestic violence and other forms of trauma. This experience informs a careful, relational style that aims to be steady and responsive.

People come to her for issues such as attachment wounds, abandonment fears, codependency, body image concerns, dissociation and family of origin problems. She helps with communication and commitment difficulties, anger and intimacy-related challenges, and forgiveness work when that is needed.

Sessions are conversational and focused on the client’s goals. The work can include noticing physical reactions, tracing relationship patterns, and practising simple mindfulness or communication skills. Arham frames therapy as a collaborative process built around the person seeking help.

How attachment and client-centred approaches work online

Arham commonly uses attachment-based and client-centred approaches alongside mindfulness in her online practice. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and bonds, helping people notice and change repeating patterns. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s own goals, using respectful listening and reflection to help them find their own solutions. Mindfulness practice teaches simple ways to be present with difficult feelings and bodily reactions, useful for anxiety, stress and trauma-related symptoms.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match the client’s needs, goals and preferences. Sessions can shift over time if priorities change or new challenges arise, with open discussion about what is most helpful.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which offer practical flexibility. Video calls suit deeper conversational work and non-verbal cues, phone sessions can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.