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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist | Counselling Psychologist
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Fiona has been working as a psychologist for 30+ years; the majority of this has been in private practice in Melbourne. She has engaged in intensive training and ongoing professional development in adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy and infant observation. Fiona teaches in the Training Program of the VAPP, and is an Infant Observation seminar leader with the VAPP and IPI. She provides supervision for psychotherapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists who have an interest in incorporating psychoanalytic thinking into their clinical work.
In her private practice, Fiona provides individual psychotherapy for adults, and is guided by contemporary psychoanalytic theories of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is a process of enquiry and exploration. The therapist and patient work together to make sense of and work through conscious and unconscious internal struggles that may be contributing to painful difficulties in the patient’s life and relationships.
Fiona provides therapy for mental health professionals interested in engaging in their own process of self-development through psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is a training therapist for candidates engaging in psychoanalytic psychotherapy training programs.
Fiona has many years of experience in working with individuals who seek help for a range of common psychological difficulties, including: depression, anxiety, stress, grief and loss, trauma, relationship difficulties, parenting, eating and body image concerns, creative blocks, and life transitions. Fiona has worked extensively with individuals who have experienced troubling experiences in childhood.
Fiona has a long-standing interest in assisting new mothers to adjust to motherhood, which is a sensitive time of transition both individually and within the family. In addition, she has an interest in perinatal work with mothers and their infants.
Fiona has experience in private practice at a Melbourne sexual health clinic where she worked with patients from the LGBTQ+ communities.
She is committed to providing non-pathologising psychotherapy for individuals from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and identities.
If you would like to directly discuss a potential referral or appointment with Fiona, please email fionalacypsych@gmail.com or phone 0411-482-431 during business hours and leave a message with some available times that you could speak.
