About Durre
Durre Shahwar is an AASW social worker with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety along with relationship strain, grief and depression. She uses clear, everyday language to help people feel heard and find practical steps forward.
Durre believes people bring strengths and knowledge about their own lives. She aims to build on those strengths while gently challenging habits that get in the way. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs, so people leave with small, doable strategies to try between appointments.
Background and approach
Her work covers trauma and abuse, attachment issues and mood concerns. She also supports people facing blended family challenges, caregiver stress, immigration-related strain and postpartum depression. Communication problems, guilt and shame, and the fallout from separation are areas she helps address.
Durre draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside mindfulness and client-centred approaches. Motivational Interviewing is used when people want help finding motivation and making changes. Techniques are explained simply, and choices are made together during sessions.
Sessions are offered in English and Urdu for people in Australia. Durre uses a conversational style that aims to calm worry and increase clarity. She encourages small experiments between sessions so progress can be noticed and adjusted over time.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, stress and situations where worry limits choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers specific exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it can help with anxiety, low mood and problem thinking. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on a respectful, non-judgemental relationship where the person is treated as the expert in their life and the therapist follows their lead.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Durre will talk through different methods and test what helps most for the person's goals and preferences. That collaborative planning means the choices are based on what feels useful, not a one-size-fits-all formula.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions suit people who need a lower-bandwidth option or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, gentle support between sessions and for people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Urdu
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