Maliheh Zare, ACA

Maliheh Zare holds a Master’s degree in Counseling and is a Level 3 registered member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) - a recognition of advanced professional standing within the association. With 18 years of clinical experience, she focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, navigate relationship and family challenges, and address difficulties such as anger, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, sleep problems, parenting struggles, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.

She also works with a wide range of related concerns including attachment issues, avoidant personality patterns, body image, commitment and communication difficulties, control issues, divorce and separation, drug and alcohol addiction, family of origin problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, immigration-related stress, infidelity, and isolation or loneliness. Her practice draws on several evidence-informed methods tailored to each person’s needs, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and reshape unhelpful thinking and behaviors, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build psychological flexibility through values-guided action, mindfulness practices to strengthen present-moment awareness and emotional regulation, and Emotionally Focused Therapy to repair and deepen attachment bonds between partners. She has also incorporated relationship-focused techniques such as the Gottman Method when appropriate.

Maliheh takes a respectful, sensitive, and compassionate approach, working collaboratively to develop a personalised treatment plan. She aims to support people through change and toward greater wellbeing, meeting each person where they are and adjusting the approach to fit individual goals and circumstances.