Zahira Virani, BACP
Zahira Virani uses a client-centred and attachment-informed approach to help people facing relationship strains, stress and anxiety.
- Stress & Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- +19 more
About Zahira
Zahira Virani uses a client-centred and attachment-informed approach to help people facing relationship strains, stress and anxiety. She is comfortable talking about grief, parenting pressures, addiction concerns and issues around intimacy. Zahira works in English and Gujarati and brings six years of experience as a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom.
She focuses on practical conversations that help clients make sense of difficult feelings. Sessions aim to give a clear way forward rather than long explanations.
Background and approach
Zahira draws on cognitive-behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful patterns and on emotionally focused and attachment work to repair trust and closeness in relationships. Zahira also supports people with sleeping and eating difficulties, anger, low self-esteem and coping with life changes. She can help with career concerns, compassion fatigue, ADHD and parenting strains.
Her additional interests include body image, adoption and foster care matters, chronic illness and caregiver stress. In therapy she offers a calm, warm tone and works collaboratively to set goals. Clients can expect practical tools alongside space to talk through painful memories or current stresses.
Zahira adapts sessions to what each person needs and how they prefer to work. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Costs vary by location and use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits.
Registration
| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 391600 | October 2026 |
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 Zahira works with
Everything Zahira lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- 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
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Zahira lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
Client-centred therapy centres the conversation on the person in front of the counsellor, using reflective listening and empathy to help people find their own answers. This approach is useful for supporting self-esteem, grief and life transitions through steady, compassionate dialogue.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT looks at thoughts, feelings and actions to spot unhelpful cycles and try practical experiments. It is often used for anxiety, stress, sleep problems and low mood and works well alongside other approaches in focused online sessions.
Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then adapt techniques over time. Clients can expect a collaborative plan rather than a fixed protocol.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, live chat lets you check in quickly and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the same therapeutic aims.
Frequently asked
What concerns does Zahira specialise in?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief and parenting pressures, and also supports people with addictions, intimacy issues and eating or sleeping problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and collaborative. She combines client-centred listening with attachment and emotionally focused ideas to help people feel heard and to repair relationship patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Zahira has six years of experience as a practising counsellor and holds BACP registration as listed in her credentials.
Where is Zahira based and what is her registration?
She practises in the United Kingdom and is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and Gujarati.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions charged?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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