About Samita
Samita Rathor is a counsellor with 15 years of experience who focuses on helping people find calmer, more manageable ways to cope. She blends practical talking therapy with body-aware techniques to help clients untangle stress, anxiety and relationship strain. Samita works from Australia and offers sessions in English.
Her approach is steady and collaborative. Samita listens without judgement and helps people break big problems into small, doable steps. She uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside somatic (body-based) practices to help people notice how emotions show up in the body and respond differently.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to the person in front of her. Samita aims to support people dealing with depression, anger, addictions, sleep or eating concerns, ADHD challenges, and life transitions. She also works with those facing caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image and communication problems.
Samita trained at a postgraduate level and holds qualifications in counselling psychology and related fields, and she is PACFA listed. Her background includes work with professionals, leaders and people navigating major life changes, and she has experience providing crisis support and mentoring health practitioners.
People who come to Samita can expect a mix of practical tools, movement- and breath-based awareness, and discussion about values and goals. She emphasises kindness, clarity and step-by-step progress when helping clients move through difficult moments.
How Samita blends therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps, even when emotions feel hard. It is useful for anxiety, depression and life transitions where values and action matter. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of responding, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Somatic work pays attention to bodily sensations and uses breathing, movement or grounding to shift stress and emotional overload.Finding the right mix is part of the work. Samita uses a collaborative process to learn about a person's needs and goals, then adapts ACT, CBT and somatic practices to fit. She will check in about what feels useful and change direction when needed so the plan matches each person's preferences and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These formats let people access support from home, fit sessions around work or family, and use brief check-ins or ongoing conversations as needed. The variety of options makes it easier to try different ways of working and find what helps most.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English