About Syeda
Syeda "Tahira" Tirmazi is an ACA counsellor with seven years' professional experience in Australia. She focuses on practical, conversational therapy and helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. She also supports those facing relationship problems, grief, low self-esteem and big life changes.
Tahira works in a straightforward way. She treats each person as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions are a place to talk through what is most worrying right now and to try small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
Her approach uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with things like social anxiety, workplace issues and coping after separation. She also addresses control issues, guilt and shame, and feelings of isolation. Conversations aim to reduce immediate distress and improve everyday functioning.
Tahira offers practical tools for managing panic, anxious thoughts and stress. She helps people practise communication skills and set realistic goals for change. Work can include short-term strategies as well as longer conversations about life purpose and meaning.
Sessions are offered in English, Hindi and Urdu. Tahira encourages a collaborative relationship where the person decides the pace and focus. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she acknowledges the courage that brings people into therapy.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Many of the techniques Tahira uses are evidence-based and easy to apply online. Cognitive approaches help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. These techniques teach simple steps to challenge anxious thoughts and test out new beliefs in everyday situations.Behavioural methods involve gradual exposure and activity planning to reduce avoidance and rebuild confidence. For problems like social anxiety, post-traumatic stress reactions or workplace avoidance, this work focuses on practical experiments and step-by-step practice that can be guided over video or phone.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Tahira will work with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, preferences and current needs, and she adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, family and other demands. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps, phone sessions can fit into a short break, and live chat or text messaging suit people who prefer typing or brief check-ins. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to use techniques between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Urdu
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