Maliheh Zare

Maliheh Zare is an ACA counsellor with 18 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, anger or depression. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making day-to-day life more manageable.

Clients come for help with relationship and family tensions, grief, addiction concerns, and difficulties with intimacy or sleep. She also supports people facing big life changes, low self-esteem, or compassion fatigue from caring roles. Maliheh speaks English and Persian and works from Australia.

Her sessions draw on a mix of well-known methods to match each person's needs. She uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and make small, testable changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people live alongside difficult thoughts instead of fighting them.

Attachment-based and emotionally focused approaches guide work on close relationships and bonding patterns. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client's comfort, with clear steps and practical tools to try between meetings. Maliheh describes therapy as a team effort where clients set the goals.

She takes a respectful, empathetic stance and aims to create a space where people can talk honestly about tough topics. The therapist will work with each person to build coping skills, improve communication, and reduce the intensity of anger and other strong emotions.

Approaches that translate well to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice and accept thoughts and feelings rather than battling them. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions that move someone toward a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps spot and test unhelpful thinking patterns and build practical skills to change unhelpful behaviours. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on the emotions that drive relationship patterns and helps people understand and shift those interactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The counsellor will work together with each person to choose methods that suit their goals, preferences and the issues they bring. That collaboration can mean mixing elements from different approaches so therapy feels useful and relevant.

If you are considering online sessions, check the current session options before booking to confirm what is offered. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow people to have shorter check-ins when needed. Discussing which methods to use and how sessions will run is part of the initial planning with the counsellor, so practical arrangements match daily life and therapeutic aims.