Counsellor profile
Zahira Virani, BACP
BACP counsellor - family and parenting focus
Continue with ZahiraAbout
- Attachment based work
- Client centred care
- CBT and DBT skills
About Zahira
Zahira Virani is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with six years' experience. She works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, parenting challenges, grief, addiction and trauma, along with issues like self-esteem, sleep and eating problems. Sessions are offered in English and Gujarati. Zahira does not accept international clients at this time.
She draws on attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to help people make sense of close relationships and family patterns. Zahira uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and elements of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to look at unhelpful thinking and build practical coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques are brought in when the focus is on intimacy and reconnecting around feelings.
In practice she works with adults who want to talk through parenting pressures, conflicts with partners or parents, grief, or the impact of trauma and addiction. Sessions are conversational and aim to identify patterns that keep problems repeating. She also addresses career stress, compassion fatigue and long-term health concerns when they affect day-to-day life.
Her background includes youth and family work and experience in group and individual settings in voluntary and statutory sectors. That experience informs a flexible approach to session content and pacing. Zahira prefers to plan therapy collaboratively, agreeing goals and steps with each person she sees.
Fees vary by location and use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. To start, the reader is asked to select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current family and partner dynamics; it helps when conflict, abandonment fears or attachment issues are present. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the centre of sessions and aims to make it easier to name feelings and goals. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and offers practical exercises to change them.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. Zahira will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. That may mean combining attachment-focused exploration with practical CBT tasks, or adding DBT skills when emotion regulation is needed.
Confirm the session formats available before booking, as they are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example shorter check-ins during a break, sessions without needing travel time, or using audio rather than video when bandwidth is limited. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt sessions so therapeutic work fits around parenting and household responsibilities rather than adding extra trips out.
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Experience
6+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English, Gujarati
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Which family and parenting issues does she help with?
She works with adults on parenting strain, blended family issues, family conflict and related concerns such as grief and adoption or foster care matters.
What therapy style does she use in sessions?
She uses an integration of client-centred, attachment-based approaches and practical CBT or DBT techniques depending on the issue.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has six years of counselling experience, plus earlier work in youth and family services and group facilitation.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is registered with the BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can I see her if I don’t speak English?
Sessions are offered in English and Gujarati.
Does she accept clients from other countries?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are fees handled?
Fees vary with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the See online therapy options button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
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