Alisha Chainani, NCPS

Alisha Chainani is an accredited registrant with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and brings three years of practice supporting people through emotional and relational challenges. She is currently completing the final year of an MSc in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy, which informs her interest in how early patterns and interpersonal dynamics shape present experience.

Over the past three years she has worked with individuals facing anxiety, low self-esteem, identity questions, relationship patterns, cultural displacement, and significant life transitions. Her work also addresses situations where people feel stuck in long-standing habits or overwhelmed by competing expectations from both internal pressures and external demands. These experiences often intersect with areas such as attachment, abandonment, family of origin concerns, blended family issues, and body image struggles.

Her therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, and relational, with the therapeutic relationship itself viewed as central to change. She creates a steady, welcoming space where all parts of a person can be acknowledged, including those that feel guarded or uncertain. Rather than offering quick fixes, she explores how past and present connect and supports clients in making meaningful, sustainable change. Interventions may include mapping interaction patterns, reflecting on early experiences, cultivating self-compassion, and processing difficult emotions that are hard to name or hold alone.

For people who find starting therapy daunting or who are used to managing on their own, Alisha offers steady support aimed at helping clients find greater clarity, connection, and ease. She looks forward to working collaboratively to identify goals and next steps.

Transactional Analysis and Relational Work Online

Transactional Analysis is a model that helps map how people relate to themselves and others by identifying recurring patterns in thoughts, feelings, and interactions. In practical terms, this approach can help clients recognise unhelpful scripts learned in childhood and experiment with new ways of relating that feel more authentic and effective.

A relational approach places emphasis on the therapeutic relationship itself as a source of insight and change. By noticing how patterns show up between client and therapist, the work can illuminate attachment styles, communication habits, and emotional responses that affect relationships outside therapy. This supports work on issues like anxiety, relationship difficulties, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Alisha works with clients to clarify needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts techniques as the therapeutic relationship develops to ensure the plan fits each person.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to access consistent support around work, family, or other commitments. These options allow clients to choose the communication style that feels most comfortable while working with licensed professionals and therapists to make steady progress.