Melisha Pillay, BACP
Melisha Pillay is a counsellor with four years' experience who helps people find more confidence and inner freedom.
- Stress & Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and Abuse
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About Melisha
Melisha Pillay is a counsellor with four years' experience who helps people find more confidence and inner freedom. She brings a compassionate, straightforward style to sessions and aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can speak openly about difficult things.
She says she has personal experience of feeling silenced and overwhelmed, and that this shaped her decision to become a counsellor. That background informs a practical focus on helping people regain their voice and sense of self.
Background and approach
Melisha offers Christian counselling and also works within other religious and personal belief systems when requested. Her approach blends creative exercises with talking therapy. She uses those activities to help thoughts and feelings shift more quickly than conversation alone sometimes allows.
Melisha emphasises honesty, empathy and trust as core values in her work. Clients can expect sessions that pay attention to their beliefs and use those values as a resource for change. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and difficulties with sleep, eating or addiction.
Melisha also offers help with career strain, parenting concerns, compassion fatigue, ADHD and life transitions. Her wider interests include attachment issues, body image, chronic illness, adoption and foster care, and communication problems. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients based in multiple formats.
Registration
| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 392393 | January 2027 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
Costs are shown on the partner platform before you commit. If cost is a concern, ask about reduced-fee options.
Focus areas and approaches
What Melisha works with
Everything Melisha lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melisha lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Online support
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and which methods feel most comfortable. Together they will try techniques and adjust the plan so it fits the person’s needs and pace.
Online work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people see each other for fuller interaction, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, chat or text allow shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family commitments and everyday life while using the therapeutic approaches described above.
Frequently asked
What kinds of concerns does Melisha address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, addictions, grief and relationship and intimacy-related issues, among other concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Melisha mixes conversation with creative exercises to help shift thoughts and feelings more quickly. She emphasises empathy, honesty and trust in sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has four years of professional experience working as a counsellor.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds BACP and works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international arrangements are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
How are sessions charged?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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