Najma Haja Alaudeen, AASW

Najma Haja Alaudeen is an AASW social worker who helps people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD and relationship strain. She offers calm, practical support and treats each person as a whole. Booking a first session can be the most useful step toward change.

She focuses on day-to-day coping and strategies that fit into real life. That can mean short tools for managing panic, routines to help with executive function, or ways to talk about past hurts that still affect now. Sessions aim to be collaborative so goals and plans make sense to each person.

Najma draws on several well-known approaches. She uses cognitive behavioural ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and ACT techniques to clarify values and take meaningful action. Attachment-based work is used when early relationships affect current patterns. Her style tends to be practical and grounded rather than overly technical.

Clients also bring issues such as grief, parenting stress, burnout, addiction and self-esteem concerns. Najma will work with people on communication and problem-solving strategies for relationship or blended-family stress. She can also help with emotion regulation ideas from dialectical behaviour therapy when anger or intense feelings get in the way.

Najma has 19 years of experience in the field and offers sessions in English and Tamil. She works in Australia and uses an approach tailored to each person’s needs and goals. To begin, clients are encouraged to use the site’s Start Therapy flow to match and schedule.

How Najma’s approaches translate to online therapy

Najma draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and attachment-based work in straightforward ways. CBT focuses on spotting thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and trying small experiments to change them. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns influence current feelings and ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is a shared task. She will discuss what feels helpful, try different strategies and adjust plans together so therapy matches the client’s goals and preferences. That collaborative stance guides choices about pace, tools and tasks between sessions.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins around work breaks, or letting people choose camera-off sessions when they prefer. Appropriately qualified or registered professionals can still use many of the same CBT, ACT and attachment techniques in remote sessions, and Najma will tailor tasks and practices so they suit the way each person wants to work.