Working Together
I work with couples, families, and individuals, with the approach shaped by what people are bringing and how they would like to work together.
Below you’ll find more about each of these, along with information about clinical supervision.
COUPLES THERAPY
Couples therapy focuses on what happens between you, especially in the moments that feel tense, stuck, or hard to shift.
Rather than working through a list of skills or strategies, I stay close to what’s actually happening in the room:
What each of you is seeking
Where connection is present, even briefly, and
What keeps pulling the conversation back into the same patterns.
The aim is to slow things down enough that something different can happen and be experienced.
Over time, conversations tend to become less automatic. It becomes a little easier to find moments of connection, to say what actually matters, and sometimes to begin talking about things that haven't felt possible before.
Couples therapy is not covered by Medicare. Private health insurance may apply; please contact your health fund to determine your level of cover.
FAMILY THERAPY
Family therapy focuses on what happens across the family, especially when tensions build or things feel hard to shift.
At times, this involves meeting with different parts of the family to better understand how each relationship shapes what happens across the whole. Often it becomes clearer how each person’s responses are linked, how the way things are organised between people and can keep things going, even when no one intends it, and how wider social and cultural contexts may also shape what happens within the family. Changes in one part of the family can shift the wider dynamic.
These shifts are often gradual but noticeable. Family members begin to see each other differently, feel more understood, and find ways to respond that do not escalate in the same way. Sometimes it becomes possible to talk together about things that have not felt possible before.
Family therapy may be helpful in situations involving:
Repetitive or unresolved conflict
Feeling misunderstood, unheard, or blamed
Breakdown in communication
One family member is the focus of concern or worry
Distrust or difficulties rebuilding it
Distance or disconnect between family members
Separation or significant changes in family structure
Supporting a family member through mental health difficulties
Tensions between siblings or across different parts of the family
Navigating identity, including gender and sexuality, within the family context
Managing the impact of loss, illness, or significant life transitions, and
Navigating differences in attention, emotional regulation, or neurodevelopmental profiles, including ADHD and autism/ASD, with a neuro-affirming approach that also considers how family members adapt and organise around one another.
Medicare rebates may apply to family-inclusive sessions in some circumstances. Please get in touch to discuss.
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
I work with individuals by focusing on recurring patterns in how you relate to others and to yourself, and how those patterns developed over time.
Early in the work, we build a shared understanding of these patterns together, often using written reflections and sketching them out so they become easier to recognise as they arise in daily life and in the room.
I use Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), approach that involves thinking about patterns, paying close attention to what happens in the room, and how these patterns are experienced in the moment. This includes how they show up between us and how they feel as they unfold.
This can create a bit more space to notice what’s happening as it happens and to begin responding differently, rather than being pulled into the same patterns.
Medicare rebates are available for individual therapy sessions with a referral from a GP or Psychiatrist. A Mental Health Care Plan allows up to 10 rebated sessions per calendar year.
CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Clinical supervision is available for psychologists and other mental health clinicians seeking a reflective and relational space to think about their work.
Supervision often involves:
Reflecting on the patterns that emerge in therapy, including what unfolds within and between people
Making sense of complex clinical situations
Working with uncertainty
Reflecting on your experience in the room as a clinician, and
Developing greater clarity and flexibility in practice.
I am a board-approved supervisor with AHPRA and welcome enquiries from clinicians interested in whether this approach may be a good fit for their supervision needs.
