Alisha Chainani, NCPS

Alisha Chainani helps people who are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck in repeating relationship patterns. She is listed with NCPS, the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, and brings three years of clinical experience. Her approach is warm and collaborative, with an emphasis on steady support and practical understanding.

Alisha works relationally, so the connection made in sessions is part of the work itself. She listens for patterns that link past experiences to present difficulties. Sessions often focus on recognising unhelpful habits, naming painful emotions, and building kinder ways of relating to oneself and others.

Her clients come with a wide range of concerns. These include stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, coping with life changes and ADHD related struggles. She also focuses on issues such as abandonment, attachment, blended family challenges, body image, codependency, communication problems, guilt and shame, immigration-related stress, infidelity, and jealousy.

Therapy may involve exploring early life influences and how they shape current reactions. Work can include developing self-compassion, practising new ways of communicating, and testing different responses in safe conversation. Alisha aims to help people find clearer perspective and greater ease in everyday life.

If taking the first step feels hard, she supports clients through that process and helps set manageable goals. Prospective clients are encouraged to use the site process to begin, answer a short matching questionnaire, and book according to availability.

How Alisha’s approaches work in online therapy

Transactional Analysis helps identify the ways people relate to themselves and others. It looks at repeated patterns and the roles people take in relationships, which can be useful for addressing communication problems, attachment difficulties and commitment worries.

Relational work focuses on the connection between counsellor and client as part of the change process. That relationship becomes a place to try new ways of relating, notice patterns, and practise different responses to difficult emotions like shame, jealousy or emptiness.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about what feels most pressing, try techniques that fit their goals, and adjust the work as understanding grows. This shared process helps shape sessions around the person's needs and preferences.

For practical arrangements, please confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow a quicker check-in during a lunch break or between commitments. They also let people continue work from different locations when scheduling is tight.