About S
S M M A Sayem offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression or big life changes. He is named in the profile as an AASW social worker and uses clear, step-by-step methods to help people regain confidence and cope day to day. Sayem focuses on creating straightforward plans that fit a person's life.
Sessions often include goal-setting, mood tracking, and skills for managing emotions. He also helps with relationship concerns, grief, parenting strain, addiction setbacks and work-related pressure.
How S works
He has nine years of experience working in mental health. That background informs his use of evidence-based tools such as behavioural activation, activity scheduling and sleep hygiene. Mindfulness and relaxation techniques are also part of his approach for managing stress and worry.
Sayem emphasises collaboration. He listens, draws out a person's strengths, and helps build practical steps toward change. Therapy may include coaching elements to boost motivation and follow-through.
Sessions are offered in English, Bengali and Hindi to suit different cultural backgrounds. He works with people on issues linked to attachment, identity, neurodiversity and complex life stress. The tone is respectful, direct and focused on what will help now.
S lists 18 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What S works with
The areas below are the ones S selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English, Bengali, Hindi |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Online approaches that focus on skills and relationships
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting swept away by them, then commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and feeling stuck.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand connection and trust issues and supports changes in how they relate to others.
Client-Centred Therapy emphasises active listening and respect for a person's perspective, giving space for people to find their own solutions and build self-worth.
Finding the right approach is usually a team effort. Sayem will talk with each person about symptoms, goals and preferences and suggest a combination of methods that feel right. That collaborative planning can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video is good for longer conversations and non-verbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and daily routines.
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