Sohail Sultan, PACFA

Sohail Sultan is a PACFA-registered clinical psychotherapist working in Australia with seven years of clinical experience. He focuses on common stresses of everyday life including anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting pressures and grief. His work also covers trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder.

Sohail uses clear, straightforward language in sessions. He listens for what matters to each person and helps them name the problem. Conversations cover practical steps as well as emotional processing. He aims to make space for difficult feelings without judgement.

In practice he draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and small behavioural shifts. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at how past relationships affect current ones. Techniques from dialectical behaviour therapy appear when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed.

People meet him to talk through relationship problems, parenting strain, patterns of avoidance, or persistent worry. He also works with those facing issues of abandonment, shame, body image and caregiver stress. Sessions tend to combine practical exercises with reflective conversation.

Sohail describes himself as culturally aware and attentive to each person’s background. He asks about day-to-day routines and relationships, then builds short-term goals that are realistic. The focus is on steady progress and clearer ways to manage stress at home and at work.

How Sohail uses therapeutic approaches online