Anthea Siow, AASW

Anthea Siow is an AASW counsellor with ten years of professional experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression and midlife crisis. Anthea listens without judgement and offers a practical way forward for everyday problems.

Her approach is collaborative. She tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation. Sessions focus on immediate concerns and steps that can be taken between meetings. Anthea aims to help people build resilience and clearer direction in life.

She has experience with trauma and abuse, including domestic and family violence and sexual assault. Anthea also supports those dealing with caregiving stress, chronic illness and ongoing pain. Practical communication skills and safety planning are part of her work when needed.

Anthea draws on a mix of evidence-informed methods. She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to notice unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and attachment-based ways to look at relationship patterns. She also works in a client-centred style to keep the person’s voice central.

People meet her for help with issues such as abandonment, body image, impulse control, isolation, money worries and finding life purpose. She encourages small, manageable changes and helps people track their progress over time.

Approaches you can use online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters to them. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and finding clearer life direction. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) targets patterns of thinking and behaviour that maintain distress and teaches practical skills to change them. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people develop different ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anthea will talk with clients about goals, preferences and how they respond to different methods. Together they decide which ideas and practices to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people use visual tools and worksheets in real time, and can support steady progress when in-person meetings are difficult to arrange. Appropriately qualified or registered professionals can use these approaches effectively over distance, and Anthea will help balance practical needs with therapeutic goals.