Melisha Pillay, BACP

Melisha Pillay is a counsellor with four years of experience who helps people work through stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties and intimacy-related issues. She holds BACP accreditation, and she draws on a mix of talking and creative methods to help people find more confidence and voice. Melisha writes plainly and aims to make therapy feel humane and approachable.

Melisha says she has personal experience of being stuck and losing her voice, and that shaped why she became a counsellor. In sessions she offers a respectful space to begin from the inside and talk about things people often avoid. Her core values are empathy, honesty and trust, and she aims to make it easier for people to speak about what matters.

Her work uses creative interventions alongside established talking approaches. She believes parts of the mind that aren’t actively analysing can help resolve feelings more quickly, so she brings activities and exercises into sessions when they help. She also works with clients’ existing beliefs and values as a resource for change.

Melisha complements her clinical methods with faith-sensitive counselling when clients want that. She can support people who prefer Christian counselling or wish to explore concerns alongside their own religious or value system. Sessions focus on the person’s goals and what they want to change.

People reach out to Melisha for a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, career change and neurodiversity-related issues such as ADHD or autism. She offers practical talk and creative tasks aimed at helping people move from where they are to where they want to be.

Therapeutic approaches and working online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then focus on actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and uses practical steps to shift patterns that cause distress. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current feelings and aims to build more secure ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That choice can change over time as progress is made and as preferences become clearer.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so please confirm available session options before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a lunch break or avoiding the need to be on camera when someone prefers audio. Many people find it simpler to attend more consistently when sessions slot into everyday routines.