Therapy Duo

About

We are two psychotherapists, passionate about counselling, relationships and therapy, available for face-to-face consultation in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, and also offering online and telephone sessions.

We work with couples (heterosexual and same-sex) and with individuals. We also work together with couples (both therapists in the room).

We Know This Process Works

We know this works because we’ve both been through it. We’ve each had years of our own personal therapy. We’ve had our ups and downs as a married couple and have sought couples therapy ourselves (and have experienced both good and bad examples).

We’re continually refining what we do – using ourselves and our relationship as a testing ground. We practice what we preach.

A New Therapy for Each Individual and Couple

We know this has to work for you. We don’t work from a formula: meeting with us is a creative process, an open exploration of new possibilities. In effect, it’s a new therapy for each individual and couple who choose to work with us.

Relationships

Whether you come to us as a couple for Couples Counselling, or as an individual for Personal Counselling, our emphasis is always on relationship.

Our relational focus is informed both by our Gestalt training, and by the conviction we hold, based on our many experiences working with people, that relationships (both those in the present and those that have formed us in the past) are crucial to our sense of well-being and our ability to cope with the vicissitudes of life. At heart, we consider ourselves Relationship Counsellors / Therapists.

Services

Sessions are usually 60 minutes in length, although for initial sessions we sometimes suggest 90 minutes.

Couples Counselling & Therapy

• Choose Amanda or Ron for Couples Therapy, or Both.


• We’re skilled at a range of Couple and Marriage issues including breaches of trust and affairs.


• We’re also skilled in working with blended families, ex-partners, in-laws and with inter-generational issues.


• Our approach is a blend of Gestalt techniques, Attachment Theory, emotional focussed therapy, and work on our own relationship.


• Mediation Therapy, when a relationship is ending.


• We’ve worked with Couples since 2006.

Individuals and Personal Counselling

• Gestalt Here-and-Now Techniques.


• Soul-based, contemplative and Dream Therapy.


• Transgender and Transitioning.


• Depth Enquiry (Amanda’s development of EMDR).


• Working with Trauma, Panic and PTSD.

Family Counselling

• Mediation Therapy.


• Workings with adult siblings to resolve childhood issues.


• Working with one or both parents and their child/children to resolve issues.


• Managing family dynamics, parenting skills, building children’s self esteem.


• Managing couple conflict regarding parenting, and responding sensitively and appropriately to children’s emotional needs.


• Coping with ADHD and autism.

For Therapists (Offered by Amanda)

• Supervision.


• Depth Enquiry training.


• Therapy for therapists.