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Calm Centre Therapy

LGBTQIA+ affirming counselling for adults experiencing relationship issues, anxiety and periods of low mood & disconnection. Medicare rebates available.

Culturally responsive, relational & trauma-informed. Based in Melbourne (Naarm) or via Telehealth

17/03/2026

When you’ve been “the strong one” in your relationships, it can feel uncomfortable to start expressing your own needs.

You might be used to being the caring one.
The one who checks in.
Who holds space and keeps the peace.

Over time, that can create a kind of loneliness in your relationships.

Not because of the role you play,
but because you’ve stopped yourself from receiving care, too.

Therapy can be a space to gently explore these patterns and decide what to shift. I am based in Melbourne |Naarm and offer LGBTQIA+ affirming and trauma-informed therapy in person and via telehealth. If you’d like to connect, you’re welcome to use the link in my bio to get in touch

13/03/2026

I've been noticing how quickly people jump to apologise, for having needs.

For needing space.
For wanting reassurance.
For asking for help.

Many of us learned early that our needs were “too much.” So we minimise. We over-explain. We wait until it’s unbearable before we say anything (or sometimes just live in quiet resentment).

In therapy, we can practise a different relational experience.

One where your needs can be named freely and without shame or worry of how the other person might react.

This work of shifting relational patterns is slow. It’s also deeply meaningful.
If you’re in Footscray or looking for trauma-informed therapy in Melbourne, you’re welcome to reach out.
You don’t need to be at breaking point to start.

11/03/2026

If you or your family have migrated from a country impacted by war and conflict you may be experiencing survivor guilt. I recently wrote about survivor guilt in migrant and diaspora experiences and why safety and distance can feel emotionally complicated, and how these feelings are connected to identity, family, and belonging.
Link in bio 💜

09/03/2026

For those who've lived between worlds, across multiple countries, cultures, languages, "belonging" and identity can feel complicated. It can feel like you've adapted to every space but you don't quite fit into any of them. Adapting, hiding or softening parts of yourself might have been the thing that's kept you safe. I've written about this recently in some reflections which you can read here:

https://calmcentretherapy.com.au/feeling-lost-after-years-of-adapting-to-others-identity-burnout-and-the-quiet-loss-of-self

If this resonates, you are not alone, and there's nothing wrong with you

06/03/2026

Being trauma-informed has started to sound a bit like a label. In practice, it means:

- Collaborating on what therapy approaches we use
- moving at a pace that feels okay for you
- prioritising the therapeutic relationship by building connection and safety
- listening to your body as much as to the words
- giving permission to slow down, pause, contain

If you are looking for trauma informed therapy in Melbourne (Naarm) you're welcome to connect

28/02/2026

It's hard to tell when someone is quietly struggling. Sometimes, it really isn't all that obvious. Quiet burnout can look like

still functioning
replying to messages
going to work

While subtly feeling a sense of disconnection and fatigue that's hard to describe.

Things might look okay on the outside, but inside you feel flat, lost or disconnected. It might be that your nervous system is doing what it's designed to do - conserving energy so that you can deal with day-to-day stresses (especially when these are never-ending). You don't have to be at breaking point to ask for help or be supported

22/02/2026

Mo did his first triathlon! 🥳

There’s something so moving about witnessing the people we love take on a challenge.
Proud of these three!

And proud of me for waking up early to be there 😌

11/02/2026

Especially at a time like this, I'm missing my family
مامان‌بزرگ

دلم برات تنگ شده
"My heart has grown tight for you" (I miss you) I would say, and my maman bozorg (grandmother) would smile and laugh, or sometimes just give a short nod, like that's the most natural, ordinary experience, for your heart to grow tight

I could never get the grief out of my family, who had to leave everything and everyone they knew, not because they didn't love Iran but because of the impossible choices we face in life.

I could never get the ache out of my mother's heart who didn't see her family for almost three decades of wandering, displaced so many times- learning to shape herself into new languages, teaching me to buy us privilege,

oh how I wish I learned farsi

Now when I speak it, I hear my maman bozorg still joke from above, chastising me, telling me to keep connected to all of our parts.

And so I called my aunty and asked how to make Kuku Sabzi, a herb omelette that's so ridiculously hard to make

"Azizam, you should ask maman bozorg, she made it the best"

And so I asked maman bozorg in my heart and I heard her joke and chastise me and with that cheeky, loving glint in her eye, she told me

"Ghorbunet beram, google it"

And so I googled it and made it, and I got to share it with the most precious, most brightest light that came into our worlds, Nooshin Joon

The joy that lives on in resistance, the strength of the iranian people, the unyielding love that pulses through all of these lifelines

The kuku sabzi today was the best I've ever made,
And I wish I could have shared it with you, too

دلم برات تنگ شده

**I didn't take a photo of my kuku sabzi so this is a google image to show you what it looks like

09/02/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about how easy it is to love deeply and slowly lose yourself along the way.

And how, sometimes, that quiet losing can leave you feeling less connected - even to the people you’re closest to.

I wrote a reflection about this, for anyone who feels the same.

you can read it here
https://calmcentretherapy.com.au/why-am-i-so-anxious-and-lonely-in-my-relationship-understanding-relationship-anxiety

02/02/2026

Some people learned very early on how to attune to others

How to read the room.

How to stay kind to stay safe.

How to soften themselves so no one else would feel uncomfortable.

And it worked for a while.

Until the cost showed up as exhaustion, anxious relational patterns, or that quiet sense of disconnection that's hard to describe.

If this resonates, I want you to know something important:

Nothing about this means you are weak, broken, or “too much.”

It means you adapted to what was required of you, what you needed to do, to survive.

Therapy, at least the way I see it, isn’t about fixing you or teaching you how to cope better while things stay the same.

It’s about slowly unlearning what no longer serves you - making room for choice, boundaries, and more meaningful connection with yourself and others.

This space here is for people who are tired of holding everything together.

For those navigating questions around identity, grief, relationships, burnout, or long-held emotional and relational patterns.

It’s for anyone who wants to come home to themselves, even if that's for the first time, without judgment or shame.

You’re welcome here - exactly as you are.

*pictured with Mittens and a cup of tea*

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Friday	12pm - 3pm
Saturday	9am - 3pm

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