Samita Rathor, PACFA

Samita Rathor is a counsellor with 15 years of clinical experience who supports people navigating stress, anxiety, relationship challenges and life transitions. She works with individuals, couples, young adults, families and professionals to build emotional strength and practical coping skills, offering a respectful, non-judgemental space where clients can explore what matters most to them.

Samita adopts a collaborative, solution-oriented style that blends empathy with evidence-informed techniques. She tailors her approach to each person’s unique needs, drawing on therapeutic methods that help with emotional regulation, communication and behavioural change. Her practice supports people dealing with anger, depression, addictions, ADHD, eating or sleeping difficulties, compassion fatigue and a range of attachment and relationship concerns.

She is registered with PACFA (Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia), a national professional association for counsellors and psychotherapists. Samita has experience working with professionals and community members across varied backgrounds, and she offers crisis support and mentoring alongside ongoing counselling work.

Samita emphasises kindness, practicality and long-term wellbeing in her work. She encourages clients to notice their resilience, to set achievable goals and to develop strategies that fit their daily lives. If typical appointment times are not suitable, she invites prospective clients to discuss alternative scheduling options.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Samita uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and to build psychological flexibility - learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that align with personal values. This approach can help with anxiety, stress and motivation issues.

She also integrates Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early patterns of relating affect current relationships and emotional responses. This work supports people facing intimacy, trust and abandonment concerns by strengthening awareness and developing safer ways of connecting.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Samita collaborates with each client to determine which methods best fit their goals, preferences and life circumstances, adjusting the plan as progress is made to ensure the work feels relevant and achievable.

Online therapy via video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging provides practical flexibility - it makes it easier to fit sessions around work, family and other commitments and enables ongoing support from appropriately qualified or registered professionals without the need to travel. These options help maintain continuity of care and allow therapists to use exercises, coaching tools and emotion-regulation strategies that clients can practise in their everyday environment.