About S
S M M A Sayem is an AASW-accredited social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress and life changes. He works in plain, practical ways so a worried parent can understand next steps. Sessions focus on immediate problems and small, useful changes rather than long lists of theory.
Sayem speaks English, Bengali and Hindi and draws on nine years of clinical experience in Australia. He offers support for mood concerns such as depression and low self-esteem, and for relationship strain, grief and parenting stresses.
Background and approach
He can also help with addiction-related challenges and relapse prevention, emotional regulation, and coping during big transitions like career shifts or loss. Sayem’s style is collaborative and strengths-based. He listens first, then helps people plan clear actions like activity scheduling, sleep routines and relaxation exercises.
He uses practical tools from cognitive behavioural approaches and mindfulness to reduce anxious thinking and improve day-to-day functioning. When trauma or attachment wounds influence a problem, he uses attachment-focused ways of working and trauma-informed strategies to rebuild safety and connection. He also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live with difficult feelings while moving toward what matters most.
Sessions tend to combine short-term strategies with planning for longer-term change. People who prefer a straightforward, respectful approach that mixes practical skills and reflective work often find this style helpful. To begin, clients follow the site's matching process and schedule sessions that suit their routine.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
S M M A Sayem draws on ACT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and to clarify values-driven action. ACT supports work on anxiety by teaching ways to carry on with meaningful activities despite uncomfortable feelings.He also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with experiments and behavioural changes. CBT often helps reduce anxious or low mood symptoms through activity scheduling, sleep routines and graded exposure tasks.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sayem will discuss your goals and preferences and together you'll decide which methods to try first. That collaborative planning makes switching strategies straightforward if something isn’t helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and ongoing text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are lower bandwidth and work well for shorter check-ins. Live chat or messaging suits people who prefer written check-ins, want frequent brief support, or need flexibility around work and childcare. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep regular momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Bengali, Hindi
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