Samita Rathor

Samita Rathor is a counsellor with 15 years' experience helping people find steadier ground when life feels overwhelming. She emphasises respectful, compassionate care and works with each person as an individual. Her practice focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, anger, depression and coping with life changes, as well as concerns such as ADHD, addictions and compassion fatigue.

Samita takes a collaborative, kind approach in sessions. She listens without judgement and helps people process what matters to them. Her style is practical and solution-oriented, with attention to emotional regulation and calming techniques drawn from yoga and related mind-body work.

Her background blends clinical study and contemplative practice. She holds an MSc in Psychology with a counselling specialisation, a MA in Science of Living, Yoga and Meditation, and a postgraduate diploma in counselling psychology. Samita is also a certified Yoga Master and has training in clinical hypnotherapy. She brings these strands together with psychological methods to support long-term wellbeing.

Over more than two decades she has worked with students, professionals, business leaders and public speakers, and has mentored clinicians and senior yoga teachers. She also volunteers with aged care and women’s support services and provides crisis support for an organisation.

Samita works in Australia and offers counselling in English. She encourages people to take the first step and complete a brief matching questionnaire to arrange an appointment and discuss what would help.

Therapeutic approaches that translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values. It emphasises mindfulness and practical actions to reduce the hold of unhelpful thoughts and anxious avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought patterns and behaviours that keep problems going and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms such as anxiety and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect feelings and reactions now, and helps people develop more secure ways of relating and regulating emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to use and adapt them over time based on what is working.

The profile does not specify particular online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find remote sessions useful for fitting counselling into busy days, allowing shorter check-ins or evening appointments, and reducing travel time. Online work can also make it easier to combine talk-based strategies with breathing and grounding exercises from yoga, or to practise behavioural skills between sessions.