Saima Durrani, ACA

Saima Durrani is an ACA counsellor practising in Australia with three years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strains, grief, parenting pressures and anger. Saima uses practical conversation and steady guidance to help people untangle what feels overwhelming in day-to-day life.

She treats problems plainly and directly. Sessions focus on clear goals, coping strategies and useful skills. Saima believes the client knows their own story and brings strengths to build on. She aims to work alongside each person to find workable steps during difficult moments.

Her background includes multicultural practice and work with diverse communities. Saima speaks English, Punjabi, Pushto, Urdu, and Hindko, which helps when cultural context matters in a conversation. She can explain techniques and check understanding in a range of languages.

Saima draws from cognitive behavioural tools and acceptance and commitment ideas to change unhelpful patterns. She also uses client-centred methods and elements from dialectical behaviour therapy and the Gottman Method when relationship work is needed. These approaches give both short-term skills and longer-term ways to relate to feelings.

People come to her for anger that shows up in relationships or at work, recurring worry, grief, parenting challenges and stress. She also supports those dealing with addiction-related concerns, sleep or eating issues, self-esteem and career pressures. Sessions aim to be practical and focused on what helps between appointments.

How her approaches work for online sessions