About Niveen
Niveen Rajabdeen works from a collaborative, client-centred stance. She combines practical tools and talk-based therapy to help people manage anxiety, stress, relationships and life changes. Niveen uses everyday language and calm guidance to help people feel less stuck and overwhelmed.
Niveen has seven years of experience as an ACA counsellor and practises approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. She draws on these methods to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
How Niveen works
This helps keep therapy focused and useful for daily life. Her areas of focus cover anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief and loss, trauma and abuse, and addictions. She also supports people facing career change, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges and issues around self-esteem and body image.
Niveen regularly addresses family dynamics, blended family difficulties and caregiving stress through individual work. In sessions she aims to create straightforward plans, build skills for managing emotions, and improve communication patterns. She includes mindfulness and nervous system regulation practices when they suit the person’s goals.
Clients can expect clear steps between sessions and practical techniques to practise outside appointments. Sessions are offered in English and are available online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Niveen works with adults seeking help for life transitions, trauma, relationship strain or ongoing mental health concerns.
Niveen lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Niveen works with
The areas below are the ones Niveen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Online approaches that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying values and taking small, meaningful actions even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with anxiety, depression and motivation by moving attention toward what matters rather than away from uncomfortable inner experiences.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current habits. This approach helps people who feel disconnected, struggle with intimacy or repeat unhelpful relationship patterns by gradually building safer ways of relating.
The choice of approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to concerns, discuss what techniques might help and adjust the plan as goals evolve. Clients and the counsellor work together to find the best fit based on needs, preferences and the issues at hand.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and everyday life while keeping the focus on progress and practical strategies.
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