About Sobia
Sobia Ikram is an AHPRA-registered psychologist with eleven years of clinical experience. She works with people who are stressed, anxious, struggling with relationships, or coping with trauma and abuse. Her style is gentle and practical, aimed at helping people manage day-to-day problems and feel more able in their lives.
Sobia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and keeps work straightforward. She helps people learn skills for managing anxiety and low mood, and she supports those rebuilding confidence after difficult events.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on real-life steps rather than abstract theory. Her background includes assessment and therapeutic work across many settings. That experience informs how she tailors sessions to each person’s needs.
She also has experience with autism, intellectual disability, chronic illness and pain, and multicultural concerns, and she draws on that when relevant. Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, and she practices from Australia. Sobia describes her approach as collaborative - she listens, explains options, and helps people choose what feels most useful.
The aim is to leave each person with clear strategies they can try between sessions. Many clients come for help with phobias, obsessions, compulsions, and relationship strain. Her work combines assessment, skill-building, and practical problem solving to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Many of the techniques Sobia uses are drawn from evidence-based approaches that teach practical skills. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy explains how thoughts, feelings and actions connect and offers tools to change unhelpful patterns; it is often useful for anxiety, phobias and low mood. Exposure-based methods involve gradual, supported contact with feared situations to reduce avoidance and anxiety over time; these methods are commonly used for phobias and obsessive-compulsive behaviours.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and make decisions together based on your goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps tailor techniques so they fit your daily life and needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let you work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, follow-ups, or for people who find typing easier than speaking. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
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