Nahid Aghili, BACP

Nahid Aghili is a counsellor with 17 years of experience and a Postgraduate Diploma in Transactional Analysis studies from Middlesex University. She is a BACP member, and she speaks English, Persian (Farsi) and Italian. Nahid welcomes people from varied backgrounds and emphasises meeting each person where they are.

Nahid works from a person-centred stance and draws on Transactional Analysis principles. She places a strong emphasis on the relationship in therapy and on listening so clients feel heard and valued. She balances empathy and acceptance with gentle reality checking and practical problem solving.

Her approach is collaborative; she describes herself as both a leader and a follower in the work. That means she will guide conversations when helpful, and step back to follow the client’s pace at other times. Nahid avoids stigmatizing labels and aims to create a respectful environment for exploring difficult topics.

Clients come for many concerns that Nahid lists, including relationship and intimacy matters, parenting and family difficulties, grief, anxiety and depression, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger and self-esteem. She also supports people coping with life changes, career uncertainty, chronic illness and specific issues such as abandonment or adoption and foster-care histories.

Nahid’s background living in Italy and Iran, and then the UK, informs her cultural awareness and language flexibility. She encourages people to be realistic about change and values practical steps alongside emotional exploration. To begin, readers should use the site’s Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.

Therapeutic approaches and online working

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and on clarifying personal values to guide meaningful action. It can help with anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how past connection or disconnection affects current feelings and behaviour. This approach can be useful for intimacy issues, attachment concerns and healing from relational trauma.

Nahid uses these approaches alongside person-centred work to support emotional exploration and practical change. Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. She will work with each person to decide what methods best match their goals, needs and preferences in a collaborative way.

If you are considering online therapy, check the session formats available before booking to confirm what is currently offered. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Different formats also suit different needs - for example, audio-only conversations require less bandwidth and can be less demanding than on-camera sessions. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt activities and exercises for remote work so clients continue practical and reflective work between meetings.