Yes, I offer online therapy to provide flexibility for those who cannot attend face to face or reside outside of Melbourne.

Your first session will involve developing an understanding of your problems and what you hope to achieve from the sessions. Following assessment, your therapist will discuss therapy length and treatment options.

Sessions are generally 55 minutes in length, which provides time to discuss your concerns, treatment and planning. Longer sessions are available. Please discuss this with your therapist.

The number of sessions that will benefit you is dependent on the nature and extent of the issues for which you are seeking assistance. This can be discussed further at your first session, where we can make plans to review your progress after a set number of sessions.

Children, adolescents, and adults assessed by a GP, paediatrician, or psychiatrist as having mental health issues are eligible for receiving Medicare rebates. Please note that couple and family therapy are not approved treatments under Medicare. You will receive a Medicare rebate of $77.80 with a Mental Health Care Plan referral by a GP.

1. Make an extended appointment with your GP and ask for a Mental Health Care Plan. During this appointment, speak with your GP about why you would like to speak with a therapist.

2. Your GP will assess and determine whether you are eligible for a Mental Health Care Plan. If you are eligible, they will create the Mental Health Care Plan and provide you with a referral letter to the therapist of your choice.

EMDR therapy is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that results from disturbing life experiences.

Studies show that EMDR therapy can bring quick relief instead of taking years to have effect. It helps to remove blocks so healing can resume. EMDR is now also recognised by Medicare.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is based on the idea that thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and actions are interconnected, and that negative thoughts and feelings can keep you stuck.

CBT can help in dealing with problems by breaking them down in smaller parts and identifying core beliefs. It also focuses on how you think about what happened to you instead of what happened to you.

Attachment Focused Therapy helps with identifying thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and interpersonal relationships that we have learned either to suppress and avoid or to amplify and overemphasize because of early attachment experiences.

IFS is an evidence-based practice used to treat a range of mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, substance abuse, and eating disorders. The IFS model aims to differentiate the Self from the other parts or aspects of who we are making up a person's inner world.

The goal of IFS is to unburden or restore extreme and wounded parts and establish a trusted, healthy, harmonious internal system that is coordinated by the Self

Schema therapy aims to teach you how to ensure your emotional needs are met in a healthy way that doesn't cause distress. It can help with understanding and changing long-term life patterns by helping with identifying early maladaptive schemas, coping styles and modes, and then confronts and challenges them

Psychodynamic psychotherapy attempts to illuminate the underlying cause of mental and emotional processes. Here, the focus is on past experiences and the unconscious and how they are manifested in an individual’s current patterns of behaviour.

This treatment aims to bring greater self-awareness and understanding of the past on present behaviour. Oftentimes, what brings a person to therapy is a symptom (e.g. depression, apathy, anxiety, anger). However, these symptoms often relate to unresolved conflict within the person’s mind, and in this way, they drive the symptoms.

In some cases, particularly trauma and early traumatic experiences, it can be particularly useful to understand these processes. This generates context in relation to the present issues as well as an opportunity to resolve their underlying cause.

Mindfulness-based approaches to psychotherapy involves integrating mindfulness meditative practices with  psychological strategies to  bring one's attention to the internal and external experiences occurring in the present moment.