About Herath
Herath Abeysekara is an AASW social worker practising in Australia with six years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship struggles. She offers straightforward support for self-esteem, motivation and coping with life changes and aims to make first steps feel manageable. Herath creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about what is worrying them.
She listens closely and helps clients name what matters most so they can make practical changes.
How Herath works
Sessions focus on what the person wants to work on rather than fitting into a fixed formula. Herath uses a mix of therapy ideas to suit different needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used when thinking patterns and behaviour change are helpful goals. Attachment-based ideas guide work around relationship patterns and how early experiences still affect current life. Client-centred ways of working mean the client's perspective shapes the pace and focus of sessions.
Herath works with a wide range of concerns including abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and communication problems. She also supports people facing aging and geriatric issues, neurodiversity such as autism, and personality-related difficulties. Herath offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose a format that fits their routine.
She encourages small steps and practical strategies so change feels possible over time.
Herath lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Herath works with
The areas below are the ones Herath selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Herath commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her online work. ACT involves noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that align with a person's values to build a more meaningful life; it can help with anxiety, low mood and motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationship patterns and how early connections affect present behaviour, which can be useful for communication and relationship concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Herath will discuss goals and preferences with each person and together they decide which methods to try first. The plan can change as needs shift, so sessions remain focused on what helps the individual make progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different lifestyles. Video calls let people see non-verbal cues, phone sessions demand less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work, live chat can be a quick check-in and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to choose the way of working that feels most comfortable.
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