About Shagufta
Shagufta Chaudhary is an ACA counsellor who draws on 21 years of experience to help people navigate stress and anxiety. She introduces herself as Shay and aims to make first steps feel manageable. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, with a focus on rebuilding self-worth and easing fear.
Shay works one on one and also runs sessions with couples and families. She creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgement.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and goal-focused, with time for emotions and the story behind them. Her work covers relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people dealing with panic attacks, mood challenges, and multicultural issues.
Common practical goals include clearer communication, managing impulses, and building confidence. Shagufta uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings.
Cognitive behavioural tools help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Sessions often include simple skill-building exercises and real-life practice between meetings. The aim is to give useful steps people can try right away rather than abstract theory.
Shay frames therapy as a partnership and helps people set realistic, achievable goals. Based in Australia, she offers sessions in English. The focus is on steady progress, practical coping strategies, and restoring a sense of control and purpose in life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behaviour. Online sessions using this approach help people notice patterns in closeness and trust, and try new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and conflict.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. In online work CBT often includes homework tasks, thought records and short behavioural experiments that can be done between sessions to reduce panic and anxious thinking.
Finding the right approach is part of the collaboration. The therapist will talk through different methods and tailor them to each person's goals and comfort level. Together they agree on what to try first and adapt as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when less bandwidth is available. Live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins and brief skills practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life without long travel times.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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