CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST · ONLINE ACROSS AUSTRALIA
Giving words to what you've carried in silence.
Clinical psychology for adults who are burnt out, anxious, and tired of holding it all together. Evidence-based therapy including EMDR and Schema Therapy, by telehealth, with Medicare rebates available.
Feeling overwhelmed right now? There is a quiet place for you to take a moment.
Online clinical psychology for burnout, anxiety and relational trauma
You're good at your life. You're capable, reliable, and the person everyone leans on. And you're exhausted in a way that rest hasn't touched.
Spoken Word Psychology is an online clinical psychology practice for adults across Australia. Many clients are capable, responsible people, often the one everyone relies on, who have spent years looking fine on the outside while carrying a great deal on the inside.
Does this sound familiar?
If you recognised yourself in even one of these, you’re in the right place.
You say "I'm fine" so automatically that you've
stopped noticing it isn't true.
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You're hard on yourself in ways you'd never be with anyone else.
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You're always "on", and stopping to rest brings guilt rather than relief.
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You've never told anyone some of what you carry, because you're afraid of what they'd think of you.
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You understand your patterns perfectly well, but understanding hasn't changed them
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Your childhood "wasn't that bad", yet something from it still shapes how you see yourself and other people.
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You've spent years masking and overcompensating, and you're exhausted from keeping it up.
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You came in about one thing. There may be more to the story.
Most people start therapy because of something happening now: constant anxiety, burnout, a relationship that keeps going the same way, or something recent that has stirred up the past.
Often there's a thread running back further. Maybe you were the eldest, the capable one, the child who helped out and never made a fuss. Maybe you learned early that your needs came last, or that it was safer to cope alone.
You don't need to have made that connection. Many people haven't yet, and that's a good place to begin.
Together, we get curious about how you came to be this way. We build a shared understanding of why you feel and act the way you do now (this is called a formulation). And we make room for gratitude toward the parts of you that got you through. They worked hard. They may simply not need to work this hard anymore.
“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”
BRENÉ BROWN
Daring Greatly
There is very little a psychologist here hasn't heard, and nothing you can say will make them think less of you.
You don't need to have it figured out. You can cry, go quiet, or speak in half sentences. You decide what we talk about and when. We never rush into painful memories.
Shame tends to grow in secrecy. Many people arrive having held something for ten, twenty, thirty years because they were certain it was too much, too strange, or too shameful to say out loud. Saying it, at your own pace, to someone who doesn't flinch, is often where things begin to shift.
You don’t have to perform here
How we can help
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Burnout, perfectionism and the inner critic.
When achieving has become the only way you feel okay, and slowing down feels unsafe.
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Anxiety and always being on guard.
When your mind and body can't switch off, and reassurance never lasts.
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Relational and childhood trauma.
Not only the big, obvious events. Also the quiet ones: being unseen, criticised, or left to cope alone.
What we work toward
Everyone's goals are different. Many people work toward:
Understanding why you react the way you do, with less self-blame
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Saying no without having to justify it
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Letting yourself stop without needing a reason
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Saying hard things out loud without shame
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Feeling more connected to yourself and to the people around you
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How therapy works here
We take an integrative approach: therapy here starts with understanding you. From there, your psychologist draws on evidence-based approaches including:
Helps you understand the patterns you formed early in life, and why they still run the show. Then we work on changing them.
Schema Therapy
Helps your brain process painful memories that feel "stuck", so they stop hijacking the present.
EMDR
Depending on what you bring, your psychologist may also draw on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based approaches, and gentle body-based regulation skills. You are never expected to fit one method.
Alongside these
Therapy that fits into a full life
It's hard to find time to do something for yourself, especially when you spend most of your day looking after everyone else. Online therapy takes away some of the obstacles.
No travel.
No commute, parking or time in traffic. A 50-minute session takes about 50 minutes of your day.
Easier to fit in.
Around work, children, or a lunch break, wherever you can find a quiet spot.
Somewhere you feel comfortable.
Many people find it easier to be honest from their own space.
Wherever you are
Anywhere in Australia. Distance doesn't decide who you can see.
Online therapy isn't right for everyone. If it isn't right for you, we'll tell you, and help you find what is.
Our story in brief
Spoken Word Psychology began in 2019, in a therapy room in South Melbourne. When COVID moved sessions online, something unexpected happened: people who might never have walked into a clinic, because of travel time, fear, or anxiety, began reaching out. We never went back.
Today we're a growing telehealth practice, based in Melbourne's west and open to adults across Australia.
2019
A therapy room in South Melbourne.
Sessions move online, and people who'd never have walked into a clinic reach out.
COVID
Based in Melbourne's west, open to adults across Australia.
TODAY
Getting started is simple
Book an initial consultation.
Choose a time that suits you.
Get a GP referral (optional).
If you’re eligible and would like a Medicare rebate, visit your GP for a Mental Health Treatment Plan (MHTP). Prefer to go private? No referral is needed. Just book your first session.
Meet your psychologist
By video, from wherever feels comfortable. The first session is for you to share what's been going on and to check whether we're a good fit. There's no pressure to say everything at once.
You don’t have to hold it all on your own
Start with a conversation. We'll take it from there., at your pace.