Alisha Chainani, NCPS

Alisha Chainani is a UK-based therapist who brings a warm, collaborative style to work with people facing emotional and relational challenges. She holds NCPS registration with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, and is currently completing an MSc in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy. Over the past three years she has supported clients coping with anxiety, low self-esteem, identity concerns, relationship patterns, cultural displacement, and major life transitions.

Alisha takes a relational approach and views the therapeutic relationship as central to change, aiming to create a steady space where all parts of a person are welcomed - including those that feel guarded or unsure. Rather than offering quick fixes, she focuses on understanding how past experiences and present circumstances connect, helping clients untangle long-standing patterns and pressures that come from both within and outside themselves.

Her training in Transactional Analysis informs how she helps people make sense of their ways of relating to themselves and others. Depending on a client’s needs, work may involve exploring patterns of thought and behaviour, reflecting on early life influences, cultivating greater self-compassion, or processing emotions that feel difficult to name. Alisha supports clients who want clarity, stronger connections, and more ease as they navigate personal change.

Practical therapeutic approaches for online work

Alisha draws on Transactional Analysis to help clients understand recurring relationship patterns and the internal scripts that shape behaviour. This approach encourages practical insight into how past interactions influence present choices and is often helpful for connection, communication and identity concerns.

She also emphasises a relational way of working that views the therapist-client relationship as a key part of change. This means attention to how people relate in the room or online, which can be useful for addressing attachment issues, codependency, and difficulties with trust or intimacy.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Alisha works collaboratively with clients to identify techniques and priorities that fit their needs, goals and preferences, adjusting the work as understanding deepens.

Online sessions via video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging offer flexibility for people balancing work, family or geographic constraints. These options make it easier to access regular support and to continue therapy through life transitions while working with registered professionals who can adapt methods to an online setting.