Saima Durrani , ACA

Saima Durrani is an ACA counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and relationship strain. She works in a straightforward, collaborative way and believes clients know their own story. Saima aims to make space for practical steps that ease day-to-day pressure and restore balance.

Saima uses approaches drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside client-centred listening. Sessions often include simple exercises to notice thoughts, practise new responses and set small goals. She adapts ideas to suit each person’s life and priorities.

Her work covers grief, parenting challenges, anger and addiction concerns. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping issues, low self-esteem and major life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, body image, communication problems and forgiveness.

Saima has three years of professional experience in Australia and brings multicultural awareness to sessions. She speaks English, Punjabi, Pushto and Urdu, and can use language to help explain concepts and hold culturally attuned conversations.

People who meet with Saima can expect patient listening, clear suggestions and a plan they can try between sessions. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so sessions can fit around work and family life.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Saima draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to guide online work. ACT focuses on identifying what matters to you and taking small committed steps even when thoughts or feelings are hard. It helps with ongoing stress, motivation and coping with change. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers practical strategies to reduce anxiety and improve sleep or mood.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Saima will talk through options with each person and tailor methods to individual goals and preferences. That means techniques are adjusted based on what a person finds most useful and what fits their daily life.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone calls work well with limited bandwidth, live chat is helpful for shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily routines while using evidence-informed approaches with an appropriately qualified counsellor.