Kalpna Kerai

• Client-Centred Therapy
• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing

About Kalpna

Kalpna Kerai helps people work through stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and loss, and builds confidence and motivation through talk-based counselling. She uses a client-centred way of working and has 13 years' professional experience. Kalpna is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.

Kalpna focuses on immediate concerns such as panic, low mood, sleep problems and relationship strains. She also supports people facing longer-term struggles, including bipolar and co-morbidity, coping with chronic illness, and addiction-related issues. Her practice includes work around identity and sexual orientation, body image, and parenting stress.

Her approach is grounded in client-centred listening and attachment-based ideas about how early relationships shape current patterns. She uses motivational interviewing to help people find reasons to change, and solution-focused techniques to set clear, practical steps. Sessions are conversational and aim to make complex problems easier to talk about.

Kalpna explains things plainly and helps clients map small, practical goals. She addresses communication problems, control issues and codependency by naming patterns and trying different responses in session. Work on grief, trauma and abuse gives space to tell difficult stories at a steady pace.

She also offers coaching-style support for career questions, life transitions and managing compassion fatigue. Sessions are suitable for people wanting short-term solution work or deeper exploration of ongoing difficulties. International clients are accepted, and sessions are conducted in English.

How her approaches translate to online counselling

Kalpna uses client-centred counselling, which focuses on listening closely and reflecting back what someone says so they feel heard and understood; this helps with low mood, confidence and stress. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns, and it can help with intimacy-related worries, abandonment concerns and communication problems. Motivational interviewing is a short, practical approach that helps people find their own reasons to change, useful for addictions, behaviour change and setting goals.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kalpna will discuss goals and preferences in early sessions and decide together which methods to use. This is a collaborative process that can include brief solution-focused steps or longer attachment-based exploration depending on what the client wants.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling around work, caregiving or travel, and they can allow shorter check-ins or appointments that avoid the need to travel. Registered or accredited professionals can offer the same kinds of conversational work remotely, helping clients progress with practical goals and emotional processing without changing the therapeutic methods used in person.

Topics Kalpna lists

• Stress and anxiety
• Addictions
• Trauma and abuse
• Grief
• Self-esteem
• LGBT
• Relationship issues
• Family conflicts
• Intimacy-related issues
• Eating disorders
• Sleeping disorders
• Parenting issues
• Anger management
• Career difficulties
• Bipolar disorder
• Depression
• Coping with life changes
• Coaching
• Compassion fatigue
• ADHD
• Abandonment
• Antisocial personality
• Attachment issues
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Avoidant personality
• Blended family issues
• Body image
• Cancer
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Chronic pain, illness, and disability
• Co-morbidity
• Codependency
• Commitment issues
• Communication problems
• Control issues
• Dependent personality
• Dissociation
• Divorce and separation
• Domestic violence
• Drug and alcohol addiction
• Emptiness
• Family of origin issues
• Family problems
• Fertility issues
• First responder issues
• Forgiveness
• Guilt and shame
• HIV and AIDS
• Hoarding
• Hospice and end-of-life counselling
• Immigration issues
• Impulsivity
• Infidelity
• Isolation and loneliness
• Jealousy
• Life purpose
• Men's issues
• Midlife crisis
• Veteran and armed forces issues
• Money and financial issues
• Mood disorders
• Multicultural concerns
• Narcissism
• Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
• Paranoia
• Personality disorders
• Phobias
• Polyamory and non-monogamous relationships
• Postpartum depression
• Post-traumatic stress
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Process addictions
• Self-harm
• Self-love
• Sex addiction
• Sexual assault and abuse
• Sexual dysfunction
• Sexuality
• Social anxiety and phobia
• Women's issues
• Workplace issues
• Young adult issues

Ways of working

• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Client-Centred Therapy
• Existential Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Trauma-Focused Therapy

Questions about Kalpna

Does she work with anxiety and stress?

Yes. Anxiety, stress and related sleep problems are listed among her main areas of work.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She uses client-centred counselling alongside attachment-based ideas, motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods.

How much experience does she have?

She has 13 years of professional experience working in counselling and related roles.

Is she registered with a professional body in the UK?

Yes. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.

Can I have sessions in languages other than English?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the UK work with her?

She accepts international clients, so people outside the UK can be matched to her.

How are sessions booked and how much do they cost?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I start counselling with her?

Select the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.