Mohammad Rakib Islam, ACA

Mohammad Rakib Islam is a registered counsellor based in Australia who offers warm, culturally aware online therapy for adults facing a range of emotional and practical challenges. With three years of clinical experience and the ACA credential - a professional counselling association membership - he works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem concerns, adult ADHD, and transitions such as divorce or migration. He also addresses relationship and attachment issues, codependency, substance-related difficulties, eating and food-related concerns, and struggles with meaning, identity, guilt, and shame.

His style is integrative and client-centered, combining evidence-informed methods to help people better understand themselves, regulate emotions, and move toward meaningful change. He draws on approaches that attend to attachment patterns, acceptance and values-based work, and practical cognitive strategies to support coping, impulse control, and improved communication. As a South Asian immigrant, he brings cultural sensitivity into sessions and aims to create a space where diverse life experiences are acknowledged and respected.

For those feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about purpose and belonging, Mohammad offers guided support to explore concerns and develop tools for everyday living. He provides therapy in English and Bengali and invites people ready to take a step toward greater clarity and wellbeing to reach out for an initial online conversation.

Therapeutic approaches for online support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and build actions that align with those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to meaningful behavior changes, which can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions.

Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns formed in close relationships and how those patterns affect current emotional responses and relationship dynamics. It can support work on abandonment fears, intimacy issues, and family of origin concerns by strengthening emotional understanding and connection skills.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship where the therapist follows the client’s lead and helps them draw on their own resources. This approach is helpful when people need a supportive space to process identity, self-esteem, or complex emotional experiences.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey and Mohammad collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Online sessions with licensed professionals offer practical flexibility - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, access support from home, and try different formats until the best fit is found.