Aisha Tasneem, BACP
Practical, story-led support for everyday struggles
Details
| Name | Aisha Tasneem |
|---|---|
| Credentials | BACP |
| Based in | United Kingdom |
| Registered with | BACP |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 5 |
About Aisha
Aisha Tasneem is a counsellor based in London who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She also supports those coping with relationship and family difficulties, addiction concerns, low self-esteem and life transitions. Aisha aims to make sessions straightforward and practical for busy people and worried parents.
She works in an integrative way, drawing on Narrative approaches alongside acceptance, attachment and cognitive methods. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on small steps that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Conversations are collaborative and paced to suit each person. Aisha brings five years' experience in the workplace and holds BACP registration, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She uses that background to balance practical coping strategies with space for meaning and story work.
This helps people make sense of painful events while learning useful skills. Typical sessions include talking about patterns that cause distress, trying out new behaviours, and noticing how thoughts and feelings influence choices. She supports people through bereavement, trauma, parenting strain, caregiving stress and career change.
Aisha also addresses specific concerns such as attachment, abandonment and communication problems. The first meetings focus on what the person wants to change and how therapy can fit around their life. From there she and the client shape a plan that may use Narrative techniques, acceptance-based tools, or practical cognitive strategies.
The emphasis is on clear goals, gradual steps and steady progress.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Relationship issues, Family conflicts among the things Aisha works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Aisha among the ways she works.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Aisha among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Aisha among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Aisha among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Aisha among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Aisha among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Aisha among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Aisha among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Aisha directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Aisha directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Narrative and Acceptance Approaches Work Online
Aisha commonly uses Narrative Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in her online work. Narrative Therapy helps people rewrite unhelpful life stories by separating them from their identity, which can ease shame and clarify values. ACT focuses on accepting difficult feelings while committing to actions that match a person's priorities, useful for anxiety, depression and coping with change.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Aisha will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. She adapts what she does based on progress, and the decision about which techniques to use is made together in sessions.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and hold longer conversations, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into lunch breaks, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to get regular support around work, school or caregiving commitments while still using narrative and acceptance-based tools.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of problems does she help with?
Aisha supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and family difficulties, addictions and self-esteem concerns. She also works on parenting strain, career change and coping with major life events.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She practises an integrative, narrative-informed style that mixes story work with practical skills. Sessions aim to make sense of experiences while building manageable coping steps.
How much experience does she have?
Aisha has five years of experience working as a counsellor. Her work combines talking therapies and techniques drawn from several approaches to meet different needs.
What professional credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP, and practices from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How are fees and payments handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and are managed through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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