Meet Sayaka Sayeed, your guide to leading an authentic and confident life. Her specialty is working with clients who may be struggling with cultural and religious issues, a low sense of self and identity, building and maintaining genuine connections, depression, anxiety, ADHD/ASD or trauma related to their previous relationships or family dynamics.

Sayaka provides expert support for individuals and couples of diverse LGBTQIA+, cultural and neurodivergent backgrounds. She will delve deeply into what has brought you to therapy and collaborate to create goals and an accessible plan to address these issues to help you thrive (whatever that looks like for you)! She uses collaborative intersectional frameworks and maintains authenticity, empathy, and curiosity in the counselling space with a focus on CBT, ACT, Schema Therapy and more, using multiple modalities as and when needed by her clients.

Sayaka Provides:

• 1:1 Therapy (online & in person)

• Couples Counselling (in person)

• Consulting & Public Speaking Services

About Sayaka

Sayaka is a passionate counsellor driving advocacy and change for culturally diverse, LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent communities across Australia. Sayaka is also the Project Manager of Umeed Psychology, a psychology private practice and social enterprise which aims to provide accessible, culturally informed mental health care. She has helped build the South Asian women’s safe space, mental health literacy and holistic culturally responsive wellbeing programs.

Sayaka is a passionate advocate for providing accessible mental healthcare and has a strong interest in cultivating culturally responsive and accessible practices in her work and in the wider mental health industry. She is a reliable, resourceful, and empathic self-starter with years of experience in community building, diversity awareness and people-centered approaches. She is inherently curious and thrives on continual growth. She is a businesswoman, creative and activist outside her counselling practice and provides free support through the Mental Health Workers for a Free Palestine collective.