Kalpna Kerai, BACP
13 years in practice
Kalpna Kerai is a counsellor who uses an existential perspective to help people find meaning and direction in difficult times.
License and registration
- BACP
- 140237 · expires November 2026
- Years in practice
- 13
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Kalpna
Kalpna Kerai is a counsellor who uses an existential perspective to help people find meaning and direction in difficult times. She combines that outlook with client-centred listening to create a space where clients can speak openly about their worries. Kalpna holds BACP accreditation and brings 13 years of professional experience in the UK to her work.
She helps people manage stress and anxiety and supports those coping with addictions. She also works with people affected by trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and motivation issues.
Background and approach
Kalpna discusses practical steps and small changes that people can try between sessions. Her sessions focus on understanding how life events affect mood and choices. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at relationship patterns and how they shape difficulties with intimacy, communication and commitment.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques can be used to set short-term goals and keep momentum. Kalpna aims to make sessions straightforward and down to earth. She listens without judgement and helps clients name what matters to them.
People meet to talk through their current struggles and to plan manageable next steps. Working online and by phone makes it easier for many people to fit therapy into life. Kalpna supports clients across the UK and internationally, offering sessions in English.
She asks new clients to complete a brief matching questionnaire before arranging the first session.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kalpna lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, 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 / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / 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 / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- 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
Approaches Kalpna names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How her approaches work online
Kalpna combines existential therapy with attachment-based and client-centred work. Existential therapy helps people look at life choices, meaning and the stress of change, which suits concerns like coping with loss or major life transitions. Attachment-based ideas focus on how early relationship patterns affect current communication and intimacy problems, helping people notice and change unhelpful cycles. Client-centred counselling means the therapist listens without judgement and follows the client’s pace to clarify what matters most.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kalpna discusses goals and preferences and will adapt techniques based on what helps the person most. This collaborative process aims to match practical steps to each person’s situation rather than imposing a single method.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions around work or caring commitments. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging suits people who prefer typing or want ongoing brief contact. Registered and accredited professionals provide sessions so people can choose the format that best fits their life and needs.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of issues does Kalpna address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem and motivation concerns. Additional focus areas include relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, career difficulties, bipolar and depression.
What is Kalpna's therapeutic style?
Her style blends existential thinking with client-centred listening and practical techniques. Sessions aim to clarify values, explore relationship patterns and set manageable short-term goals.
How much experience does she have?
She has 13 years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. That background includes supporting people through a broad range of emotional and behavioural challenges.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP, and works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients may work with her as well.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options let people choose what fits their routine and communication preferences.
How are costs handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability. Sessions are provided through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How does someone begin working with Kalpna?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. After that, schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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