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Rajbinder "Raj" Kalirai, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 8 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseAnger managementDepression
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Rajbinder "Raj" Kalirai meets people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or big life changes. She helps people talk through relationship strain, grief, parenting worries and questions about identity. Raj offers a calm, non-judgemental presence for those coping with trauma, anger, addictions or low self-esteem.
Rajbinder has eight years of experience working in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation. She aims to make sessions straightforward and practical, so conversations focus on what matters most to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
That might mean learning new ways to manage difficult thoughts, rebuilding trust after hurt, or practising skills that ease day-to-day strain. Her approach draws on several well-known methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy. Raj blends these to match each person’s situation rather than using a fixed formula.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client’s comfort. She is able to work in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu and accepts international clients. Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
Fees vary with location and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. Rajbinder focuses on clear goals and steady progress so people leave sessions with practical steps they can use between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Rajbinder often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and helps people take small steps toward what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety or low mood.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy when relationship patterns or early attachments are central to a person’s difficulties. This work helps people understand how past relationship experiences shape current reactions and aims to build healthier ways of relating and feeling supported in connections.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rajbinder will discuss options with each person and choose or combine methods based on goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process, and adjustments are made as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit longer, face-to-face style sessions while phone or chat sessions can fit shorter check-ins or times with less bandwidth. Text messaging and live chat allow for ongoing contact between sessions and can help keep momentum when life is busy.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
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