About Melisha
Melisha Pillay is a counsellor who brings four years of practice to sessions. She creates a calm space where people can begin again. Her style is warm, direct and values-led, with honesty and empathy at the core.
She aims to help people find greater confidence and reconnect with what feels meaningful. Sessions focus on practical steps and creative ways to move from stuckness toward change. Melisha encourages clients to use their own beliefs and values as part of that work.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on body-based somatic ways of working alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive techniques. That combination is used to help with stress, anxiety, grief and trauma, and with practical life problems such as career strain, sleeping difficulties and addictive behaviours.
Melisha also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, compassion fatigue and neurodiverse concerns such as ADHD or autism-related challenges. She lists experience with a wide range of issues including self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, chronic illness and caregiving stress. Sessions are offered in English and Melisha works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and uses a mix of talking, creative exercises and body-awareness techniques to help people make tangible changes.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Somatic-informed work focuses on body awareness and gentle movement to notice how stress and emotion show up in the body. It can help people who feel disconnected from their sensations or who carry tension, and it is used alongside talking to open up different routes to change.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying what matters most to them. It uses small, practical steps aimed at living a more value-driven life and can be useful for anxiety, depression and life transitions.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns that formed in past relationships and how they show up now. This approach helps people understand how they connect and communicate, and supports shifts in relationship habits and emotional safety.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their needs, goals and preferences. That means trying things gently and adjusting based on what helps most in real sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and time zones, and allow people to continue work from home or while travelling. Many clients find the range of options helps them stay consistent with the process and use therapy in ways that suit their daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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