- Integrative Psychotherapist and Couples Therapist -
Amelia is trained as an integrative psychotherapist, her therapeutic approach is warm, attuned, compassionate and collaborative. Amelia aims to create a deep sense of safety, trust and understanding for her clients. She works with an embodied approach that sees you as a whole person. Amelia’s work is imbued with reverence for the full spectrum of our shared human experience. She believes in the importance of locating our own experiences in the broader time and tapestry in which we are living and knows this as an important antidote to pathologising the individual. As Jiddu Krishnamurti once said, “it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Amelia gently supports clients to foster greater insight, understanding and self-compassion. She empowers clients to come to a deeper understanding of their relationship with self, their relationship with others and their relationship with the world. Amelia believes in every person’s innate creativity and movement towards healing. Her practice centers slowing down and coming to safely know and feel our emotions.
Amelia holds the view that change is made possible when we are witnessed in and learn to hold the places within ourselves that feel our darkest. She walks alongside clients as they come back in touch with the wellspring of their own intuition.
Amelia’s approach with couples is informed by Emotion Focused Therapy for couples and relationships (EFCT), the Gottman method and the psychobiological approach to couples therapy (PACT). Her approach to working with couples is experiential and attachment based - focusing on creating growth for both individuals and the relationship and fostering a secure attachment bond through corrective emotional experiences.
Amelia is passionate about providing a therapeutic relationship that places her clients as experts in their own story, is strengths-based, culturally sensitive, LGBTIQ+ inclusive, and welcoming of clients’ intersectional lived experiences. In her practice Amelia recognizes that trauma is not just a psychological phenomenon but also a physiological one, manifested in bodily sensations, movements, and nervous system responses.
Amelia has over 12 years experience in client-focused work in the community and public sector across the fields of systemic reform, advocacy, co-design, and specialist family violence social work; in addition to being an experienced therapeutic group-work facilitator.
Her integrative psychotherapy practice may draw on the following approaches: metacognitive therapy; developmental theory; attachment theory; Focusing; somatic approaches; existential therapy; mindfulness; systems approaches and parts work; psychodynamic therapy; narrative therapy; cognitive and behavioural therapies (including CBT and DBT); philosophy and poetry.
Areas of interest
- Grief and loss
- Finding identity and meaning
- Spirituality
- Attachment disruption
- Recovery from and reconnection to self after relationship violence
- Work and life transition
- Sexuality (in particular - navigating bisexuality)
- Loneliness and seeking connection and community
- Existential questioning
- Relationship breakdown and interpersonal issues
- Anxiety and depression
- Cyclical living, PMS & PMDD
- Alternative lifestyles
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Integrative Psychotherapy (IKON Institute of Australia)
- Advanced Training in Applied Ecopsychology (Eco-psychotherapy) (Nature Calling)
- Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy (Integrative Psychology)
- Psychedelic Integration Training (Integrative Psychology)
- Level 2 & 3: Integrative Attachment Therapist (Integrative Psychology & Medicine)
- Gottman L1 Couples Therapy
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy for Couples (in training)
- Somatic Interventions in Couples Therapy (in training)
Fees
Amelia’s fee for individuals is $150 for a 50 minute session
Amelia’s fee for couples is $200 for a 50 minute session, or $250 for an 80 minute session.
