About S
S M M A Sayem is an AASW social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. He speaks English, Bengali and Hindi and offers straightforward support for everyday struggles. Sayem aims to make sessions practical and easy to follow for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
He uses short-term strategies and steady supports to reduce distress and build coping skills. That can look like activity scheduling, behavioural activation, sleep hygiene and relaxation techniques.
Background and approach
He also draws on mindfulness and interpersonal work to improve mood and connection. Sayem has nine years of experience working with people on issues such as parenting strain, trauma and emotional regulation. He also supports those managing addiction, grief, ADHD and the stress of life transitions.
His practice is trauma informed and attentive to cultural differences. In sessions he listens first and then collaborates on clear, doable steps. People leave with concrete strategies they can try between meetings.
He encourages small changes that add up to better daily functioning and more confidence. Clients can expect a calm, respectful space to talk and plan. Sayem focuses on building strengths, reducing symptoms and improving problem solving.
He tailors the work to each person's goals and pace.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with change by teaching practical ways to move toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses exercises like activity scheduling to reduce symptoms and build routine. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and emotional safety, helping people improve how they relate to others and manage attachment concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences in the first sessions and together decide which methods fit best. That collaborative planning means strategies are chosen to match each person's needs and pace rather than applying one fixed method.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quicker check-ins and text messaging helps with regular brief support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and everyday life while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Bengali, Hindi
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