Nisha Irfan, BACP

Nisha Irfan helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, low self-esteem and grief. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, LGBT concerns, sleep problems, parenting strain, career stress, and ADHD-related challenges. Nisha works with a wide range of emotional and life changes, including compassion fatigue and coping after assault or domestic violence.

Nisha uses a humanistic, relational style in sessions. She focuses on building a steady, calm connection so clients can talk about hard experiences. Her work is informed by trauma knowledge and aims to make emotional reactions easier to bear.

She trained at the University of Nottingham and holds a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy. She also completed a Diploma in Clinical Supervision at the Centre for Personal and Professional Development. Nisha is accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.

In practice she blends talking therapy with body-based and processing techniques. That includes eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, known as EMDR, and tension, trauma and stress releasing exercises, TRE. Sessions may cover coping tools, emotional regulation and ways to rebuild self-worth.

Nisha brings 12 years of experience to her work. She aims to make sessions practical and straightforward. Clients can expect calm, grounded support and clear steps to try between meetings.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on the quality of relationships and how early patterns affect current feelings. It helps people who struggle with trust, closeness and worry about connections. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, often called CBT, works by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical steps. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression and problems with sleep or mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and goals and choose methods together. That collaborative process can combine talking, practical experiments and processing techniques such as EMDR when appropriate.

Online therapy here is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations, phone sessions need less internet bandwidth, live chat can be a quick check-in and messaging lets someone write when it suits them. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, family and travel commitments and let people keep continuity of care even when life is busy.