About Sobia
Sobia Gohar helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss, or big life changes. She is an ACA counsellor with seven years of experience and speaks English and Urdu. Her work focuses on clear, practical steps alongside listening and reflection.
Sobia offers structured, trauma-informed support for people coping with depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and the long tail of abuse or trauma. She also helps with parenting stress, sleep problems, anger, addictions, and difficulties like low self-esteem or feelings of emptiness.
How Sobia works
Sobia pays attention to patterns such as attachment and abandonment issues that often shape relationships. Her sessions blend person-centred support with techniques from cognitive behavioural approaches. That means clients are heard and understood while also learning tools to manage thoughts, emotions and behaviours.
The aim is to reduce distress and build everyday coping skills you can use between sessions. Sobia values steady progress and practical outcomes. She prioritises consistency, clear direction and away-from-theory conversations that focus on what helps in daily life.
Those looking to understand recurring patterns, process painful experiences and try new ways of relating may find her approach helpful. Sessions are offered in Australia and conducted in English or Urdu. Sobia works with individuals on issues including grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related concerns, communication problems and recovery after separation or domestic violence.
What Sobia works with
The areas below are the ones Sobia 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English, Urdu |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches fit with online sessions
Person-centred therapy focuses on understanding your experience and offering empathic listening. It helps when someone needs space to talk through feelings, make sense of patterns, and feel validated before trying new strategies. Cognitive behavioural techniques aim to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and replace them with more workable alternatives. These methods are useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep issues and problems with anger or coping day-to-day. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods suit their needs, goals and preferences, and will adjust the plan as therapy progresses. Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use verbal and visual cues much like face-to-face meetings, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing contact, quick check-ins and brief exercises between longer sessions. These options make therapy more accessible for people balancing work, parenting or other commitments, and allow continuity when in-person meetings are difficult. Appropriately qualified therapists can adapt exercises and worksheets for use over video or text so clients keep making progress.Start online instead of waiting
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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