About Saima
Saima Durrani is an ACA counsellor who focuses on practical, down-to-earth therapy. She helps people manage stress and anxiety and talks through relationship and parenting challenges with clear, calm guidance. Saima believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to difficult times.
She works alongside clients to find workable steps rather than offering one-size-fits-all solutions. Sessions aim to be straightforward and respectful of what each person needs right now.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and client-centred work. That means she helps people notice patterns of thought and behaviour, practise new ways of responding, and focus on values that matter to them. Mindfulness and DBT skills are used when helpful for emotion regulation.
Saima has three years of professional experience in multicultural settings across Australia. She supports people coping with grief, trauma and loss, addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, low self-esteem, career stress and major life changes. She also works with concerns such as anger, codependency, attachment and abandonment issues.
Sessions are offered in English, Punjabi, Pushto and Urdu. Saima combines empathic listening with practical strategies, and helps people build routines and skills they can use between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify personal values and take small, meaningful actions. It uses mindfulness and practical exercises to reduce the impact of difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and teaches concrete skills to change them, which suits problems like anxiety, sleeping issues and low mood. Client-Centred Therapy prioritises empathic listening and the counsellor's non-judgemental presence to help people feel heard and understood, which can support deeper self-reflection and healing.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about current needs, goals and preferences. Together they will try methods that fit the person's life and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for fuller conversation and demonstrations of skills, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit brief check-ins and text messaging helps with short updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and daily routines and help people access consistent care from wherever they are in Australia.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Punjabi, Pushto, Urdu
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