About Herath
Herath Abeysekara is an AASW-accredited social worker who has six years' experience in mental health practice in Australia. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and relationship difficulties. Herath aims to make the first step easier by offering a calm, non-judgemental space to talk about what matters to the person sitting across from her.
She uses a mix of practical strategies and listening. Sessions often include simple skills to manage overwhelming thoughts and to improve day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
Herath draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot thought patterns and on acceptance-based techniques to build tolerance for difficult feelings. Attachment-focused ideas shape how she thinks about relationships and trust. That work is useful for people dealing with abandonment, attachment difficulties or problems forming close connections.
She also supports people facing life transitions such as changes in caregiving roles, ageing concerns, adoption and foster care issues, or managing chronic illness. Herath works in a straightforward, person-centred way. She asks questions, reflects what she hears and helps clients choose small, realistic steps between sessions.
Her approach suits people who want clear strategies as well as time to process feelings. Sessions are conducted in English and are offered online through video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Starting involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment based on availability.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is practical for anxiety, low mood and difficulties that come with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce worrying and improve mood. This approach fits well for stress and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current connections and can help with abandonment or trust issues.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to try different techniques and agree on what feels most helpful. Goals and preferences guide choices rather than a single fixed method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and other commitments while keeping therapy practical and focused.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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