Padma Psychotherapy

The Meaning of Padma

Padma is a sanskrit word meaning lotus. It is one of the 8 favourable symbols in Buddhism, and is typically used to indicate change and compassion.

The lotus grows from the mud, through the water, and into the light, symbolising the path to understanding.

What I Offer

I am trained and practice as a psychodynamic and buddhist psychotherapist. Buddhist psychotherapy is based on buddhist psychology and is not a religious practice or approach.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy aims to help people understand and resolve their problems by increasing their awareness of their inner world. It differs from most other therapies in aiming for deep-seated change in personality and emotions. It’s effective for a range of psychological and emotional problems.

For individual work I offer both longer term as well as time-limited psychotherapy. The time-limited work is typically between 12 and 32 weekly sessions and has a specific focus. I work with adults from 16 years and older.

I also offer psychodynamic couple psychotherapy which focuses on the way past relationships influence the present dynamics, and includes techniques aimed at deepening your relationships. I also use the Gottman (gottman.com) approach, which provides coaching along with psychotherapy for couples.

Couples psychotherapy is for couples of all ages, typically 16 years and older, whether married or not, mixed or same sex, living together or apart.

Fees:

Individual psychotherapy is typically $150 per session.

Couple psychotherapy is typically $190 per session

Approach

Making the decision to start psychotherapy can be difficult. Often the most important decision is finding a psychotherapist and an approach that works for you.

Psychotherapy can help with making sense of behaviours that might be stuck or repeated and that result in unsatisfactory relationships, or troublesome feelings and unsettledness. This might result in depression, anxiety, grief, and intense sadness, as well as conflict in relationships at home or at work. Couples therapy focusses on mis-communications and relationship tension.

Typically therapy is once a week, although it can be more frequent in some situations, and usually it lasts for about 50 minutes or 60 minutes for couples.

About Me

I am qualified and registered as a clinical social worker and psychodynamic psychotherapist. I have additional training in : brief psychotherapy, clinical supervision, couple psychotherapy, mentalisation based therapy, EMDR, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy - all effective treatments for trauma.

I am also trained in Buddhist Psychotherapy through the Australian Association of Buddhist Counsellors and Psychotherapists.

Contact

Contact me with questions or for appointments

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