About Melisha
Melisha Pillay is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She brings four years of practice to sessions and focuses on helping people find more freedom, confidence and meaning in their lives. Her approach is warm and person-centred, aimed at making space for feelings that are hard to speak about.
Melisha describes her own journey through a time when she felt she had lost her voice, and that experience shapes how she works now.
Background and approach
She uses creative interventions alongside talking so clients can reach change more quickly. She also respects and draws on a person’s beliefs and values when that helps progress. In the counselling room she places high value on empathy, honesty and trust.
Those values guide gentle but straightforward conversations about stressful life events, anxiety, grief, trauma and relationship worries. She also supports people dealing with self-esteem, addiction, sleep or eating concerns and career or life transitions. Melisha offers Christian counselling and can also work within other religious or personal belief systems when clients want that integrated into sessions.
She is comfortable supporting people with attachment issues, ADHD, chronic illness, parenting strain and other complex life difficulties. Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, and Melisha is open to working with international clients. Her style suits people who want a compassionate listener plus practical ways to move forward.
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on values-based action instead. It is useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes because it teaches skills to stay present and move toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses practical exercises to change patterns that cause distress. It often helps with anxiety, low mood and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships affect current patterns and can help with intimacy problems, attachment concerns and some relationship difficulties.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to the person's needs and goals, then suggest methods that fit those priorities. Plans can change as work progresses so the approach stays relevant to the person's situation.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are close to face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging options allow brief or ongoing contact between calls. These choices help people fit counselling around work, travel or family life while keeping the focus on practical progress and emotional support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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