About Herath
Herath Abeysekara is an AASW mental health social worker practising in Australia. She has six years of experience supporting people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood and life changes. Herath aims to make the first step into therapy less daunting and more manageable.
Herath keeps sessions simple and direct. She creates a calm space where clients can name difficult thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what practical changes might help day to day life.
Background and approach
She draws on a mix of approaches to fit different needs. That can mean working on clear thinking patterns, learning new ways to respond to strong emotions, or exploring how early relationships shape current worries. The aim is to find skills that people can use between sessions.
Herath often helps people with relationship worries and confidence issues. She also supports those facing grief, caregiver stress, body image concerns, chronic illness, and the challenge of major life transitions. She works at a pace set by each person.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online in several formats. Herath encourages people to start with a short matching questionnaire and a scheduling step to find a time that fits. She supports realistic goals and practical next steps so progress feels achievable.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches skills to change thoughts and behaviours that keep anxiety and low mood going.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Herath will talk with each person about their goals and try out methods that suit their needs. Together they decide which tools to keep using and which to adapt as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their life. Video calls allow deeper conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, chat is useful for shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These choices help therapy fit around work, family and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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