Dr. Maisha Murshed, HCPC

Dr. Maisha Murshed is a HCPC registered clinical psychologist with eight years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. She emphasises the strengths clients already have and supports them as they take the first steps toward change.

Dr Murshed treats each person as the expert on their own life. She encourages practical steps and clear goals while listening for the themes that matter most to each client. Conversations focus on what feels most pressing and what can be done next to make life feel more manageable.

Her approach draws on several evidence-informed styles, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, attachment-based ideas and psychodynamic thinking. She uses these to help people notice thoughts and feelings, improve communication, and understand patterns that repeat in relationships and family life.

Typical areas she addresses include caregiver stress, attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family issues, communication problems, and separation or divorce. She also works with difficulties like dissociation, eating and body image worries, codependency and feelings of emptiness.

Dr Murshed aims to create a practical, supportive space where a parent or carer can talk through urgent worries and plan doable changes. To begin, readers should use the site’s Start Therapy process and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule according to therapist availability.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It supports choices that match personal values, which can help when parenting or caregiving feels overwhelming.

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach is useful for people dealing with abandonment worries, communication problems or repeating relationship cycles.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to your needs, goals and preferences rather than using a single fixed style. Together you will try things, see what helps, and adjust the plan as you go.

If you are considering online work, please confirm the available session formats before booking. Many people find remote sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, for example by saving travel time, allowing shorter check-ins between commitments, or avoiding the need to be on camera at every meeting. The therapist will discuss practical arrangements and what is likely to suit your day-to-day routine when you begin.