Niveen Rajabdeen , ACA

Niveen Rajabdeen is an ACA counsellor who uses a collaborative, person-centred approach. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety and on repairing relationship and family patterns. Niveen keeps sessions warm and straightforward so people can talk about what matters most to them.

She has seven years of clinical experience working with people facing depression, grief, trauma and burnout. Niveen also supports those dealing with addictions, compassion fatigue, and big life changes such as career shifts or loss. She attends to intimacy and communication problems and helps people facing body image or self-esteem struggles.

Niveen draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas. That means she helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed, rebuild connection in relationships, and learn new patterns of thinking and behaving. Sessions often include practical exercises and gentle skills practice.

She integrates mindfulness and nervous-system regulation techniques where useful. This can look like breath work, grounding strategies and simple habits to reduce reactivity between sessions. The aim is to give manageable tools people can use day to day.

Niveen works with clients to set clear goals and tailor care to each person’s situation. She supports people through family dynamics, relationship conflict, grief, and the stresses that come from work and caregiving roles. Conversations are paced to suit the person and their needs.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and still take meaningful action. Online ACT sessions often use guided exercises and values-based tasks to help with anxiety, depression and life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours. In video or phone sessions the therapist and client practise skills together and agree on short exercises to try between meetings.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of connection in relationships and aims to strengthen secure ways of relating. This approach can help with intimacy issues, communication problems and healing from past wounds during online sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then shape a plan together. That collaborative process helps match method to the person's needs rather than assuming one fixed route.

Online sessions offer practical benefits like easier scheduling and fewer travel demands. Video calls let the therapist and client read facial cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and text-based messaging or live chat can suit brief check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving and daily life.