About Deboshmita
Deboshmita "Diya" Bhanja is an ACA counsellor practising in Australia with six years of clinical experience. She supports people who are feeling overwhelmed and helps them find clearer ways to cope. Diya aims to make the first steps feel manageable and steady rather than overwhelming.
Diya works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, stress, depression, sleep problems and attention difficulties. She also helps people struggling with low self-esteem, relationship and career worries, grief, addiction and the aftereffects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting those facing compassion fatigue and chronic illness challenges. Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions are gentle and practical, centred on listening first and then building simple skills to manage thoughts, emotions and behaviour.
She avoids stigmatising labels and treats each person with respect and sensitivity. Diya draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and client-centred work. She combines these methods to fit the person in front of her, rather than following a fixed formula.
People can expect a collaborative tone in sessions, with a mix of talking, practical exercises and short home tasks when useful. Diya also offers coaching-style support for practical life changes and career shifts. Her aim is to help clients build tools they can use beyond the therapy room.
Online therapy approaches and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choosing actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, avoidance and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression and sleep problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then suggest a path that fits each person's needs. That plan can change as progress is made, and sessions stay collaborative and flexible.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video suits in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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