ARPITA GHOSAL, BACP

ARPITA GHOSAL brings four years of counselling experience and a BACP registration to her practice in the United Kingdom. She believes people know their stories best and builds on existing strengths to help them move forward. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making the first step feel manageable for someone feeling overwhelmed.

She works with issues such as grief and loss, low self-esteem, anxiety and stress, and depression. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting pressures and major life changes. Practical day-to-day coping skills are offered alongside time to process difficult emotions.

Her sessions blend approaches that focus on thoughts, emotions and attachment. Cognitive behavioural strategies are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavioural changes. Attachment-based ideas look at patterns in close relationships and how they affect current problems.

Client-centred and emotionally focused methods shape the counselling tone. This means conversations are paced around each person, with attention to feelings and the connections that matter. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is also used to help people clarify values and take committed steps towards them.

Sessions are available in English, Bengali, Hindi and Urdu and can be held online by video or phone, or through live chat and text messaging. Practical information about cost and how the subscription model works is provided during booking. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled according to availability.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online counselling

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress and life changes where action matters more than perfect thinking. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with practical exercises, which can reduce panic, depression and social anxiety by changing behaviours and beliefs. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape reactions today and helps people build different ways of relating and feeling safer in close connections.

Finding the right approach is often a shared process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs, adjusting as you go. This collaborative way means techniques can be blended and tailored so the work feels useful and clear rather than confusing.

Online counselling offers practical flexibility. Video calls let conversations feel more like face-to-face meetings, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work for brief check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, childcare or travel, and allow regular contact without extra travel time.