Nisha Irfan
Nisha holds a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Nottingham and a Diploma in Clinical Supervision from the Centre for Personal and Professional Development (CPPD).
She has been awarded accreditation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), which is a quality status for experienced practitioners who can demonstrate high standards of competent and ethical practice. She adheres to the professional body’s Ethical Framework and Professional Conduct Procedure in all her work with clients, ensuring a high standard of professional practice.
While Nisha’s counselling orientation is humanistic and is based on experiencing relational depth in the therapy, her approach is trauma informed. She is a certified provider of tension, trauma and stress releasing exercises (TRE), which is a technique that releases deeply imbedded muscular patterns of tension, calming down the nervous system and encouraging the body to return to a state of balance. Additionally, she is a fully trained eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapist; an innovative psychotherapy that uses bilateral stimulation to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories.
Nisha’s interventions have been used to aid in the management of post-traumatic stress, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, phobias, complicated grief, anger, pain relief and relationship concerns.
Links to clinical articles/papers:
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/capr.12162
Languages
- English
- Urdu
- Hindi
Services Offered
Conditions Treated
- Adjustment Disorder
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD and ADD
- Bereavement
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
- Depression
- Gender Dysphoria
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Perinatal Depression
- Phobias
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self Harm
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Sleep Disorders (Insomnia)
- Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD)
- Stress
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) - Accreditation - 2018
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) - Certificate of Proficiency - 2015
- Centre for Personal and Professional Development (CPPD) - Diploma in Clinical Supervision - 2017
- Certified provider of Tension, Trauma and Stress Releasing Exercises (TRE) - 2018
- Developing Minds: Mental Health, Children & Young People featuring Dan Siegel - Aug 2020
- Dick Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems Master Class - Nov 2020
- Dynamic Communications - Practitioner Stage 1 of Neuro-Linguistic Programming - 2018
- EMDR Academy Europe - Certified Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapist - 2019
- Gabor Maté Compassionate Inquiry Master Class - May 2020
- Level 3 Certificate in Humanistic Counselling - 2012
- Master of Arts - Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice (Distinction) - 2014
- PESI UK - Trauma Skills and Supervision Group with Dr Arielle Schwartz - Sep 2021
- SOS Internationale - Introduction to Somatic Experiencing - June 2019
- The Attachment Summit: Integrating Attachment Science with Today's Most Popular Approaches in Psychotherapy - Aug 2021
- The Grief Summit: Grief Counselling and Treatment in a Pandemic of Loss - April 2021
- TRE Global - TRE Advanced Training - Feb 2021
- WPF Therapy, London - Certificate in CBT Skills - 2015