Saima Durrani, ACA

Saima Durrani is an ACA counsellor practising in Australia who focuses on thoughts and everyday habits that affect how people feel and act. She frames therapy as a practical collaboration, listening first and then working with clients to build skills that fit real life. Her tone is calm and direct to help people take small, useful steps when things feel overwhelming.

Saima has three years of professional experience and draws on multicultural work with people from diverse backgrounds. She helps with stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief and parenting strains. She also supports people coping with anger, addictions, trauma and changes at work or home.

Her approach mixes several therapies aimed at useful change. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and reduce struggling with unwanted thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps spot thought patterns and shift everyday habits. Client-Centred methods bring a respectful, listening stance so clients set the pace.

Saima also brings techniques from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and the Gottman Method when relevant for emotion regulation and relationship conversations. She offers sessions in English, Punjabi, Pushto and Urdu to match cultural and language needs. Practical coaching tasks and skill practice between meetings are common parts of her work.

Saima asks people to start where they are and build on strengths. Her aim is to make therapy feel useful and doable, with steps people can try between sessions to notice change over time.

How her approaches guide online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can reduce time spent fighting feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thought patterns and changing everyday habits, useful for anxiety, sleep and low mood. Client-Centred Therapy gives space for a person to tell their story at their own pace while the therapist listens without judgement.

Working out which approach to use is treated as a joint decision. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques and adjust the plan if something does not fit. That collaboration helps shape a mix of skills, exercises and practical tasks that suit the person's needs and circumstances.

This therapist's biography does not list specific session formats here, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into busy days, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use written exercises, screen-based resources and between-session tasks to build new habits in everyday life.