Dr. Maisha Murshed

Dr. Maisha Murshed is a HCPC-registered clinical psychologist based in the United Kingdom. She has eight years of professional experience and helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict, trauma or abuse. She also supports parents working through the everyday pressures of caregiving.

Her practice centres on understanding each person’s story and strengths. She encourages people to build on what already helps them and to take small, practical steps towards change. Sessions are collaborative and focused on achievable goals rather than long lectures.

Dr Murshed uses a mix of approaches depending on what the person needs. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and try alternative behaviours. Attachment-based ideas help when relationships or past losses affect day-to-day life. Narrative and psychodynamic perspectives can be used to look at recurring patterns and how life events shape current feelings.

She works with concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, dissociation, and the emotional impact of separation and domestic violence. Body image, eating and food-related problems, and caregiver stress are also within her practice focus.

Her style is straightforward and supportive. She invites people to set clear, realistic goals and to review progress together. To begin, prospective clients use the Start Therapy button, complete a brief matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions

Dr Murshed commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside cognitive behavioural ideas to support people online. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and build small actions that align with those values, which can reduce feeling stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, useful for relationship and family concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviours to reduce anxiety and improve coping.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they choose techniques and adapt them as progress is reviewed, so the plan can change if something does not feel helpful.

Please confirm the specific session options before booking, as formats are not listed in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, for example by avoiding travel time, allowing shorter check-ins around work breaks, or removing the need to be on camera if that helps someone engage. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises and homework for remote sessions so progress continues between meetings.