Najma Haja Alaudeen

Najma Haja Alaudeen offers calm, practical support for adults feeling overwhelmed by worry, low motivation, or past hurt. She greets each person as a whole individual and works alongside them to find workable ways forward.

Sessions focus on everyday problems and bigger struggles alike. Najma helps people manage anxiety, depression, mood shifts, and the executive function challenges that come with ADHD. She also assists with trauma, PTSD, addictions, grief, and stress from parenting or caregiving.

Her style is collaborative and flexible. Najma draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to build coping tools that fit a client's life. Conversations aim to be practical, not theoretical, with clear strategies to try between sessions.

Over 19 years of practice, Najma has worked with people facing relationship strain, communication problems, codependency, and the fallout from separation or domestic violence. She brings attention to patterns like abandonment fears, attachment issues, avoidant or dependent behaviour, and control struggles so clients can make different choices.

Najma is an AASW social worker and conducts work from Australia. She offers sessions in English and Tamil. To begin, she supports people to set realistic goals and take steady steps toward change.

How Najma’s approaches work online

Najma uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and build practical habits. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps clients test new ways of responding. ACT focuses on values and small committed steps, helping people act in line with what matters even when emotions are difficult.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at relational patterns and how early connections shape current reactions. That work helps people notice repeated patterns in relationships and try different ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Najma will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm the current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, by avoiding travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a work break, or reducing the need to organise childcare. Appropriately qualified or registered professionals can adapt exercises, homework and breathing or grounding practices to work well in remote sessions.