Ash Chopra, BACP, NCPS

Ash Chopra is a counsellor and psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom with nine years of professional experience. He is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and an accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). Ash works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues and depression, and he also lists codependency among his focus areas.

Ash works mostly one to one, and he also sees couples for relationship therapy. He teaches at college and university level, runs workshops and seminars, and provides casework supervision to other counsellors. He describes his work as practical and collaborative, helping people identify strengths and plan steps they can try between sessions.

He uses a mix of approaches rather than a single model. Ash draws on Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early patterns affect current relationships, Client-Centred Therapy to keep the client's perspective central, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and test different ways of responding. He also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing tools when these suit the client's goals.

In sessions Ash offers coping strategies and straightforward planning around problems. He avoids giving directive advice and prefers to support a person in choosing what feels right for them. He emphasises steady, regular work rather than quick fixes, noting that progress often comes from persistence and agreed, ongoing sessions.

Ash is comfortable discussing identity and cultural difference in therapy and aims to work respectfully around those issues. If someone is thinking about starting therapy he suggests taking the step to complete a short questionnaire and book a first session to see how the work might fit their life.

How Ash uses therapeutic approaches online