Melisha Pillay, BACP
4 years in practice
Melisha Pillay is a counsellor who draws on her own recovery to guide people toward more confidence and meaning.
License and registration
- BACP
- 392393 · expires January 2027
- Years in practice
- 4
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Melisha
Melisha Pillay is a counsellor who draws on her own recovery to guide people toward more confidence and meaning. She brings four years' experience and works from a stance that honours each person's values and beliefs, including offering Christian counselling when that is wanted. Sessions aim to give people space to start from the inside and name what matters to them.
Melisha uses creative interventions to help people move forward more quickly than conversation alone sometimes allows.
Background and approach
She encourages clients to use their existing beliefs as a resource, and she holds empathy, honesty and trust as key parts of every meeting. This can help people feel safe enough to talk about things they have not been able to share elsewhere.
Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related issues, addictions, self-esteem, grief and parenting strain. She also supports people dealing with sleep or eating difficulties, career changes, bipolar, ADHD and compassion fatigue, among other challenges.
Melisha draws on several approaches such as Existential therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, client-centred counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). She blends methods to suit each person's goals and pace rather than following one single recipe. Sessions are offered in English.
Melisha works with people in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Melisha lists on their public professional profile, 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 names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Melisha’s methods work online
Melisha combines Existential therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people explore meaning, values and choices. Existential therapy looks at questions of purpose, freedom and responsibility to help people make sense of difficult life changes. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings while taking value-guided action to improve daily functioning.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to understand how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people who struggle with trust, closeness or recurring relationship difficulties to recognise and change those patterns with practical steps.
Finding the right fit is collaborative. Melisha discusses options with each person and adapts methods to their goals and preferences rather than following one fixed plan. Together they agree which techniques to try and how quickly to move through them.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth work and visual cues, phone calls suit people who need a low-bandwidth option, live chat can be a shorter check-in and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and travel.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Melisha help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions and self-esteem difficulties, among many other concerns listed in her profile.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is empathetic and straightforward, using creative exercises alongside talking. She emphasises honesty and trust and includes clients' own beliefs as part of the work.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has four years of professional experience working as a counsellor and draws on her personal recovery to inform her practice.
What credentials and location information are on file?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions priced?
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