Zahira Virani
Compassionate relational counselling for practical change
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About Zahira
Zahira Virani draws on a blend of humanistic and attachment-aware ways of working to help people make sense of difficult feelings. She is presented here as Zahira Virani and brings a warm, empathetic style that aims to make hard conversations feel more manageable.
Zahira holds BACP, which stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and she has six years of experience in this role. Zahira uses person-centred ideas alongside attachment-based thinking to focus on relationships and emotions.
Background and approach
She also integrates cognitive behavioural approaches and elements from dialectical behaviour therapy when practical strategies are useful. This mix lets her adjust sessions to what a person needs most. In practice she offers a calm space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and grief.
She also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, anger, and self-esteem. Career worries and coping with life changes are included as well. Zahira has additional experience related to adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, chronic illness, autism and attachment issues.
She has worked across voluntary and statutory settings with people affected by family breakdown and substance dependency. Sessions are collaborative and aim to build empowerment and authenticity. To begin, users follow the site Start Therapy process to match and schedule based on therapist availability.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 6
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 391600
- Languages
- English, Gujarati
- Approaches include
- Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Zahira's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
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.
How Zahira works online
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Zahira will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs with each person and then agree an approach that fits. That collaborative conversation helps choose whether to focus on emotion and relationship patterns, practical coping skills, or a mix of both.
The practical advantages of online therapy can include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. If you are considering remote work, please confirm the specific session options available before booking so you know how sessions are scheduled and conducted. Many people find online conversations easier to arrange around work, family tasks or medical appointments and they can allow focused, regular time to practise new skills.
Questions and answers
What concerns can Zahira help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression and grief alongside relationship and intimacy issues. She also works with parenting strain, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, anger and self-esteem.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style combines person-centred warmth with attachment-focused thinking and practical CBT or DBT strategies when helpful. Sessions are adapted to what each person needs.
How much experience does she have?
Zahira has six years of experience in this professional role and prior work across voluntary and statutory services supporting people affected by family breakdown and substance dependency.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed with BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Gujarati.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I do to start therapy?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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