About Maliheh
Maliheh Zare is an ACA counsellor with 18 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate relationship and family difficulties. Her manner is calm and direct, and she aims to make conversations feel safe and straightforward for someone who is worried and looking for help.
She works with people facing anger, depression, addictions, grief and trauma. She also helps with intimacy-related concerns, sleeping problems, self-esteem, and coping with major life changes.
Background and approach
Maliheh pays attention to issues that often come from attachment wounds, control problems, communication breakdowns and family of origin patterns. Maliheh adapts her approach to each person. She draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and change patterns that keep problems active.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values even when uncomfortable thoughts and feelings are present. She also uses attachment-based ideas and emotionally focused work to improve closeness and repair difficult interactions. Sessions are collaborative - Maliheh listens, reflects and helps set small, practical steps to try between meetings.
She explains tools in plain language and checks they fit each person's life and goals. Sessions are offered in English and Persian and delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Maliheh works from Australia and tailors the focus to concerns like parenting strain, compassion fatigue, addiction, immigration stress and relationship repair.
Approaches that guide online work and what they do
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice and make room for difficult thoughts and feelings while still taking steps that matter to them. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and testing small, concrete changes. This approach is often helpful for stress, sleeping problems and repetitive worry.
Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas are used to understand how early bonds shape current relationship patterns. These approaches support people trying to improve closeness, communication or repair after hurt.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Maliheh will discuss different methods and help decide what fits the client’s goals, needs and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, family life or busy days and still keep continuity of care with an appropriately qualified therapist.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Persian
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