About Niveen
Niveen Rajabdeen is an ACA counsellor who focuses on somatic-informed therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and relationship strain. She brings seven years of recent clinical experience and draws on a broad background in counselling, psychotherapy, mindfulness and nervous system regulation.
Niveen aims to create a calm, straightforward space where people can notice what their body and mind are saying and make practical changes. She works with individuals feeling overwhelmed, stuck or disconnected.
Background and approach
Sessions often address anxiety, depression, workplace stress, grief and major life transitions. Niveen also supports people dealing with intimacy issues, addiction-related concerns, self-esteem and communication problems. Niveen uses a mix of approaches suited to each person.
That can include somatic awareness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas alongside cognitive strategies and client-centred conversations. She blends talking work with simple exercises that focus on breathing, grounding and body awareness. Her style is warm and collaborative.
She helps clients notice patterns, practise new skills and build steady routines that reduce reactivity and improve everyday functioning. Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs. Niveen also brings experience supporting carers, people handling chronic pain or illness, and those managing work-related fatigue and burnout.
She values cultural sensitivity and aims to help people strengthen resilience and clearer connection in their lives.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice bodily signals and gentle regulation techniques. It focuses on breathing, grounding and movement awareness to reduce panic, reactivity and chronic tension, which can support recovery from anxiety and trauma.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify values and take small committed actions. It helps with anxiety, depression and life transitions by teaching skills to accept difficult thoughts while moving toward meaningful goals.
Attachment-Based ideas look at patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current trust and closeness. This approach can be useful for intimacy issues, communication problems and repairing connection in relationships.
Choosing the best fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about what matters to the client, try different techniques and adjust the approach over time. Together they decide which methods suit the client’s goals, preferences and day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health needs. Many people find that combining short messaging between sessions with regular video or phone meetings helps maintain momentum and practise new skills in real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English