About Saima
Saima Durrani uses a blend of talking therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety and relationship problems. She introduces simple, practical tools and listens with empathy so people feel heard and understood. Saima draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centred ways of working to shape sessions around each person's needs.
With three years' experience, Saima supports people dealing with grief, parenting strains, anger and addictive behaviours.
How Saima works
She helps clients untangle issues such as body image, codependency, communication problems and feelings of isolation. Sessions focus on small changes that can make daily life more manageable. Saima believes clients are the experts in their own lives and works alongside them to set clear goals.
She uses mindfulness and values-based exercises from ACT, practical thinking tools from CBT and warm, non-judgemental listening from client-centred therapy. This mix helps people notice patterns and try new responses in real life. Her background includes work with trauma, compassion fatigue and workplace stress, and she offers strategies for better sleep, eating concerns and self‑esteem.
Saima also integrates elements of DBT for emotion regulation and the Gottman Method for relationship skills when relevant. Sessions are offered in English, Punjabi, Pushto and Urdu. Saima practises in Australia as an ACA counsellor and draws on multicultural experience to match interventions to each person's cultural context.
She aims for practical progress in everyday routines and relationships.
Saima lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Saima works with
The areas below are the ones Saima selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English, Punjabi, Pushto, Urdu |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviours to reduce symptoms of anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises empathetic listening and collaboration, giving people space to feel heard and to set their own goals.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Saima will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and how they respond to different techniques. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, client-centred methods or a mixture will be most helpful and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily routines while keeping focus on achievable steps and skill practice.
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