Renika Nakra
Compassionate counsellor for stress and life change
About Renika
Renika Nakra is a counsellor who uses practical, person-focused methods to help people manage stress, anxiety and life transitions. She brings five years of experience and a registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often supporting clients with motivation, confidence and career-related challenges. Her sessions aim to be respectful and down to earth.
Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs, and the plan evolves as progress is made.
Background and approach
Renika emphasises simple, doable steps that people can try between meetings. She draws on a mix of approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas. This mix helps with mood concerns like depression and bipolar, as well as issues such as grief, trauma, addictions and relationship or intimacy difficulties.
Renika also works with practical areas like sleep and eating problems, parenting stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness and fertility worries. She supports people facing communication and control issues, and those coping with separation, blended family dynamics or bereavement. Sessions are offered in English and Renika accepts international clients.
Work can include focused coaching-style conversations as well as longer therapeutic exploration. People often begin by identifying one or two manageable goals and building from there. Her style is compassionate and straightforward.
The aim is to help people feel steadier and more able to handle daily challenges, whether the focus is on immediate coping or longer term change.
What Renika works with
How Renika works
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Listed by Renika among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
Evidence-informed approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that fit their values. It is often used for ongoing stress, anxiety and low mood by teaching practical skills for living with difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and introduces simple exercises to change patterns that keep problems going. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Renika will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and suggest methods that match their needs. Decisions are made together and can change as progress is made, mixing short-term skills work with deeper exploration when needed.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers flexibility for different routines. Video is useful for face-to-face style sessions, phone can fit into a short break or suit those who prefer no camera, and live chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or people who express themselves better in writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and travel while keeping the focus on practical progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
