INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
To be deeply understood is itself transformative.
Most of us carry things we have never quite been able to put into words — patterns that repeat, feelings that don’t resolve, a sense that something beneath the surface is driving the life we are living. Individual therapy at Blue Door creates the conditions for that deeper material to be explored, carefully and without rushing, in the presence of a clinician who is genuinely curious about you.
Who we work with
People come to us carrying many different kinds of difficulty. Some arrive with a clear sense of what they want to work on. Others come with something harder to name — a feeling of being stuck, or a recurring sense that things are not quite right. Both are equally valid starting points.
We work with adults navigating:
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Trauma & PTSD
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Mood and anxiety disorders
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Disordered eating & body image
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Perinatal concerns
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Life transitions
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Relational difficulties
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Treatment Specialties
TRAUMA & PTSD
Trauma is not only what happened. It is what happens inside us in response — the way an overwhelming experience disrupts our sense of safety, trust, and continuity. Trauma can be a single event or the accumulation of many smaller ones. It can be recent or carried for decades. At Blue Door, trauma work is approached with patience and care, at a pace that feels safe, honouring the fact that healing is rarely linear.
DISORDERED EATING & BODY IMAGE
Disordered eating rarely exists in isolation. Beneath the behaviours — restriction, bingeing, compulsive exercise, rigid rules around food — there is almost always a more complex story about the self, the body, and what it means to take up space in the world. Our approach attends to that story, not only to the behaviours it produces.
TRANSITIONAL LIFE PHASES
Major transitions — leaving home, becoming a parent, losing a parent, changing careers, navigating menopause, ageing, immigration — have a way of bringing old questions back to the surface. Who am I now? What do I want? What have I been carrying that I no longer need? These are not just practical questions. They are invitations to know yourself more fully.
PERINATAL CONCERNS
The perinatal period — from the decision to have a child through to the early years of parenthood — is one of the most profound and least spoken-about transitions in a person’s life. It can bring joy and loss, identity disruption and unexpected grief, alongside the particular vulnerability of postpartum depression and anxiety. This is a space where all of that can be held.
RELATIONAL CONCERNS
How we relate to others is shaped long before we are conscious of it — in early attachment, in family patterns, in the relational world we grew up inside. When those patterns cause us pain in the present, therapy offers a space to examine them with curiosity rather than judgment, and to begin to find new ways of being with the people who matter most.
ANXIETY & MOOD DISORDERS
Anxiety and depression are among the most common reasons people seek therapy — and among the most isolating to live with. The persistent worry, the low mood, the exhaustion of simply getting through the day. These experiences are real and they are treatable, and you do not need a formal diagnosis to begin. What matters is that something is making your life harder than it needs to be.
Getting Started
Individual therapy at Blue Door is available in person in Paddington and via Telehealth. Sessions are 50 minutes and fees start from $190. Medicare rebates are available for eligible clients with a valid GP referral, though no referral is required to get started.
If you’d like to explore whether Blue Door is the right fit, we offer a free 15-minute phone consultation to help match you with the right clinician.