About Zohreh
Zohreh Safarnezhadi is an ACA counsellor with five years of clinical experience in Australia. She helps people who are overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and supports those navigating relationship and family difficulties. She also assists people coping with trauma and parenting challenges.
Zohreh believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to the work of change. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She listens first to understand what matters most to the person sitting across from her.
Background and approach
Then she suggests practical steps to try between sessions. Sessions focus on small, achievable changes rather than distant goals. Zohreh uses approaches drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
She weaves mindful practices into conversations to help reduce reactivity and build calm. For people affected by past harm, she uses trauma-focused work to address painful memories at a gentle pace. She works in English and Persian and brings five years of varied experience to appointments.
Zohreh aims to create a calm space where people can speak honestly about hard things. Her aim is to help clients find clearer ways of coping and move towards a life they value. If someone is unsure where to begin, she helps set small goals and checks progress each session.
The focus is on practical skills and steady steps forward rather than quick fixes.
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people live by their values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. Online ACT sessions teach simple exercises to notice thoughts and choose actions that matter to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers practical tools for changing unhelpful patterns. In remote CBT sessions the therapist and client identify small experiments to try between meetings to test new ways of thinking.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist discusses goals, symptoms and preferences with each person and together they choose which methods to try first. This collaborative process means the approach can be adjusted as progress is made and new challenges arise.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions suit people who prefer not to be on camera or who have limited bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quicker support between sessions, and for people who communicate better in writing. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Persian
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