Tim Fraser

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Clients I work with

I’m open to working with anyone who may be interested in commencing therapy with me. However, my training and personal history have led me to be particularly interested in the following areas:

• Attachment disruption & repair, and other relational issues
• Issues of meaning, identity, and purpose
• Self-worth, agency, and autonomy
• Anxiety, stress, and burnout
• Distress related to social and political injustice, including eco-anxiety, activist burnout, queerphobia, racism, and other forms of oppression
• Building resilience, particularly as a collective
• Support in the immediate aftermath of a traumatic event
• Psychedelic integration
• Deepening connection with nature

My training and approach

I completed a Graduate Diploma in psychology at the University of Melbourne, then trained in integrative Psychotherapy at the Ikon institute of Australia. I’ve studied mentalisation-based therapy, different meta-cognitive therapies, and Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (The Conversational Model), but I also frequently draw on Internal Family Systems, somatic experiencing, and cognitive-behavioural therapy.

However, I believe that most of the time therapists should focus on delivering Plain Old Therapy. By this I mean building an increasingly strong relationship that deepens empathy, working together to develop a collaborative therapeutic plan and goals, and regularly reviewing these during our time together. Put simply, I’m focused on what is going on between you and me, what this tells me about what you need, and how we can shape our relationship more and more towards meeting these needs.