Nisha Irfan, BACP

Nisha Irfan is a BACP-accredited counsellor with 12 years of experience in the United Kingdom. She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, depression and anger. She also supports issues around relationships, sexuality, parenting and career strain.

Her background includes a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Nottingham and a Diploma in Clinical Supervision from the Centre for Personal and Professional Development. She is accredited with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and follows its Ethical Framework and Professional Conduct Procedure.

Nisha uses a humanistic, relational approach that pays attention to how people connect and relate. She describes her work as trauma informed and includes body-based methods alongside talking therapies. One such method is tension, trauma and stress releasing exercises (TRE), which targets muscular patterns of tension and aims to calm the nervous system.

She also uses eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), an approach that involves bilateral stimulation to reduce distress linked to traumatic memories. Cognitive and mindfulness strategies are part of her toolkit when helpful for managing mood, sleep and anxious thinking.

In sessions she focuses on practical ways to manage strong feelings, rebuild self-esteem and address relationship or family-of-origin patterns. People who bring anger concerns can work on what triggers their reactions and on safer ways to express and process frustration.

Her work has been used to support recovery from complex grief, post-traumatic stress, phobias, chronic pain and compassion fatigue. She combines talk-based methods with body-focused techniques to help people feel steadier day to day.

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