Therapists

TransSpace Trans Space is a private multidisciplinary mental health service that provides trans-affirmative counselling to trans & gender diverse (TGD) people and their families using the informed consent model. Mental health practitioners consist of a team of professionals that are experienced in working with TGD people and TGD mental health practitioners with lived-experience.

Mikel Moss primarily works within BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities, but I am open and able to work with people outside of this area as well. He utilises talk and creative expression, as a way to assist in areas such as setting goals, gaining a deeper understanding of self, moving through and healing trauma, and much more.

Felix is a Counsellor who specialise in working with personal identity, creating change, and supporting people with thoughts or past experience of suicide, and their loved ones. Some of these come from their own journey with ADHD, being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, and the people they’ve known and loved.

Toya Ricci is a Melbourne based sexologist and sexuality educator with experience in counselling, psychology and creative and experiential arts therapy. In her counselling practice, Toya uses an inclusive, contemporary approach to help individuals and couples navigate the challenges of modern sex, sexual function, intimacy, connection, dating, relationships and sexual expression over the lifespan.

Sanduni Silva is the founder of Insession Counselling and a senior mental health counsellor & psychologist. She is a South Asian (Sri-Lankan) Woman of Colour with over 10 years experience in the mental health field. She started Insession Counselling to create a practice where therapy is tailored to people from all cultural backgrounds, gender identities and sexual orientations so that you are seen fully, understood deeply, and feel safe in your experience of therapy.

Mr. Halakhe Ganyu has worked in community health field for the last 23 years. He has worked with individuals, young people and family members presented with depression and anxiety. Those who may have also experienced trauma, domestic violence, drug and alcohol addictions and relationship issues. He also provides counselling in behavioural change and interpersonal skills development for perpetrators of family violence.

Marit Demissie has a unique insight into being a first-generation Australian, growing up in a Western culture with both South-Asian and East-African influences in the home. As a black woman, she is curious about navigating identity, culture and race; and have an understanding about being impacted by marginalisation and experiences of racism while living in a predominantly white society. As a therapist, she can support you with exploring your identity, relationships, and past experiences to increase self-awareness and move through emotions; as well as exploring managing experiences of oppression - empowering you to love how you exist in this world.

Steph Basia is a holistic Black counsellor/psychotherapist, with an extensive experience in meditation and mindful living.  She uses eclectic therapy in my practice including, somatic therapy  - where the body is included in the process of understanding the client's issues and to indicate signs of healing. Her academic background reflects my inquisitive mind, about life as it is experienced in society, and the choices available to enhance that experience. 

Smruthy Nair is the Founder of Unhyphen, Psychologist and Consultant. Unhyphen utilises an intersectional framework, trying to understand how race, gender, ethnicity, and privilege impact an individual and their health.T he values most important to her in psychotherapy are best practice principles that are also evidence based, culturally responsive, person-centred, inclusive, and feminist. Her work relies on using an anti-oppression and systems focused lens, and she seek to bring this perspective in the areas of community upliftment, policy analysis and practice development.

Bimba Chavan is a Counsellor and Narrative Practitioner at Unhyphen. She is a member of the Australian Counselling Association and holds experience in working with adolescents, young adults and families from diverse multicultural and socio-economic backgrounds in Mumbai and Melbourne. She adopts a culturally sensitive and trauma-focused approach.

Alexandre Jodun is a holistic psychotherapist, ritualist, and poet, Alexandre is soulfully in service to loving-awareness and the evolution of consciousness. With an eclectic therapeutic, ancestral, and musically-creative background, he meaningfully weaves together his roots as a multidisciplinary and integrative practitioner.

Emma Sestan is a Psycholgoist who aims to ensure that you have a safe and respectful space where we can promote personal growth, self-compassion and work through challenging times together. She has many years experience working with clients in both community and forensic settings, and a range of presentations. This includes complex trauma, drug and alcohol issues, family violence, anxiety and depression.

Jaya Narayan is a culturally attuned, neurobiology-oriented, Melbourne (Naarm) based Expressive Arts therapist, Psychodramatist & Somatic Practitioner. She has learnt over a decade of practice that trust, safety, and unconditional positive regard are the sacred ground that shapes the therapeutic process. Unearthing somatic wisdom, self-compassion, and imagination equips us to befriend our inner world and readies us for change. She is committed to trauma-informed care, affirmative and inclusive approaches.

Shikha Gray is a Psychologist who works at Psychology Melbourne. Shikha practices an integrative approach to therapy with an underlying basis of existential theory. This means that while she use the theoretical lens of existentialism to make sense of human problems, she also use the methods of wide-ranging evidence-based models of therapy depending on each person’s needs and preferences. Working with Shikha, you can expect to be met with sensitivity and genuineness.

The Rainbow Muse Clinic is based in Naarm (Melbourne) and offers art therapy, psychology, child-centred play therapy, animal-assisted therapy  and yoga in an inclusive environment that celebrates diversity. 

Reeham Hakem is an Art Therapist passionate about creating spaces of curiosity where we can question the stories we tell of who we are and open ourselves to the complexities and possibilities revealed. As a woman of colour, I am especially invested in offering spaces of support and growth to other women of colour, who are the forefront of some of the most important conversations for the sake of our communities.

Walter Carter is a Counsellor and Founder of Freeform Counselling. He uses a collaborative and holistic approach with clients for individual, couples, family and group sessions. He works with a diverse range of clients including those with a multicultural background, adolescents, and the LGBTQI+ community.

Kathomi Gatwiri PhD is a Psychotherapist and Founder of Healing Together. Healing Together is a service that seeks to bridge that gap by providing therapeutic, supervision and consulting services that “see”, affirm, and respond to the unique experiences of living in a racialised body.