Therapy that honours your whole story.
Therapy, screening and assessment: gender and neurodiversity affirming, trauma-informed and identity-inclusive care for adults navigating layered identities, life transitions, trauma and neurodivergence. Neurodiversity-affirming psychologists in Prahran, Melbourne, and online anywhere in Australia.
By who you are
Liminal Psychology.
Therapy that makes space for all of you. Weekly, fortnightly or monthly, in Prahran or on a screen. Everything below is on this page, so you can read straight down or jump to the part that fits.
Everyday life
Anxiety, low mood, stress, grief, sleep, anger, work and the transitions in between. Therapy is not only for when things fall apart.
Read this section →The neurospicy
ADHD, autism, AuDHD, masking, burnout and late identification. NDIS welcome. We do not practise ABA.
Read this section →The rainbow community
WPATH-aligned gender assessments and letters, identity exploration, coming out and minority stress.
Read this section →Intersectional identities
Culture, faith, disability, neurotype, gender, sexuality, class and migration, held together rather than one at a time.
Read this section →Sexual health and intimacy
Desire, intimacy, sexual function and identity. Kink and BDSM aware, sex-work affirming, any relationship structure.
Read this section →Eating and body concerns
Muscle dysmorphia, restrictive and binge eating, compulsive exercise and dysphoria, with particular attention to men and trans people.
Read this section →Trauma
Single-event, complex, developmental and identity-based trauma. EMDR and EMDR 2.0, Schema Therapy and ACT, paced by you.
Read this section →For everyday life
When nothing is falling apart, and something is still off.
Life does not have to be in pieces for therapy to help. Often it is the quiet, persistent stuff. The low hum of worry. The motivation that will not come. The feeling that something is wrong, without a word for it.
We work with stress at work, friction at home, burnout, grief, sleep, anger, self-esteem and the long project of understanding yourself better. None of it needs a diagnosis to count, and none of it is too small to bring.
Things people bring us
- Anxiety, panic and avoidance, including the kind that only shows up as exhaustion
- Low mood and flatness, including the functional version nobody else notices
- Stress and burnout from work, study or caring
- Grief and loss, including the losses nobody sends a card for
- Sleep, anger and emotional regulation
- Self-criticism, perfectionism and procrastination
- Relationships, family, estrangement and loneliness
- Life transitions: moving, ending, beginning, and the in between
- Alcohol, other drugs, gaming and phones, without a lecture attached
For the neurospicy
Difference, not deficit.
If you are neurodivergent, or suspect you might be, we know the territory. The exhaustion of masking, the strangeness of finding out at forty, and the grief of realising how hard you have been working just to pass as ordinary.
We do not treat ADHD or autism as faults to be corrected. They are different operating systems. Our job is to help you understand yours, work with it rather than against it, and build a life that fits.
We do not practise ABA. NDIS participants who are self-managed or plan-managed are welcome. If you are wondering whether neurodivergence is part of your story, screening and assessment is where to start.
Things people bring us
- Late identification, and re-reading a whole life through it
- Masking, and what it takes to stop
- Autistic and ADHD burnout, which is not laziness and not depression
- Sensory load, and a room and a pace that account for it
- Executive function systems that fit you, not another planner you will abandon
- Twice and thrice exceptional profiles: gifted, neurodivergent, and used to being misread
For the rainbow community
Affirmation, not acceptance with caveats.
You do not need to explain what non-binary means, justify your pronouns, or teach us about your life before we can be useful. We come prepared.
We offer WPATH-aligned support for gender affirmation, including assessments and letters for hormone therapy and surgery. We also work with identity exploration, coming out, minority stress, and the whole range of queer experience. We oppose conversion practices in every form they take. More on gender-affirming care.
Things people bring us
- Gender affirmation, with WPATH-aligned assessments and readiness letters, usually three to six sessions
- Identity exploration, at your pace, with questions rather than conclusions
- Coming out, at any age, to anyone, or to nobody yet
- Minority stress, named and worked with rather than absorbed
- Relationships of any structure: monogamous, polyamorous, kink-aware, sex-work affirming
- Culturally safe, gender-affirming care for Sistergirls and Brotherboys
For intersectional identities
Held together, not one at a time.
You are not a stack of separate identities. Being queer and neurodivergent is not the same as being one or the other, and the places where they meet are usually where the difficulty lives.
Minority stress compounds. Racism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism do not take turns. We hold the whole picture: culture, faith, disability, neurotype, gender, sexuality, class, migration, and whatever else makes you who you are.
Things people bring us
- Culture and language, with sessions in English and Vietnamese, and interpreters welcome
- Faith, whether it sits alongside your identity or has to be worked through
- Disability and chronic illness, in a body that needs accommodating rather than apologising for
- Migration and family expectation: two worlds, one person
- Class and money, named, because they shape everything else
- Being marginalised inside your own community, which is real too
For sexual health and intimacy
Said out loud, without shame.
Sex and intimacy are ordinary parts of life that are usually surrounded by silence. We make a room where they can be talked about plainly.
We work with desire and difference, sexual identity, intimacy, sexual function, relationship dynamics, and the aftermath of sexual trauma. We are queer-affirming, kink and BDSM aware, and sex-work affirming. Whatever your relationship structure, you are welcome here, and we will use the words you use.
Things people bring us
- Desire and difference, when two people want different things at different times
- Intimacy after trauma, rebuilt on your terms
- Sexual function, without the pamphlet voice
- Relationship structures: monogamy, polyamory, open, and the conversations each one needs
- Kink and BDSM, understood rather than pathologised
- Sex work, treated as work, practically and confidentially
- Sexual health and living with HIV, informed, friendly and unbothered
For eating and body concerns
Beyond the stereotype.
Eating and body-image concerns affect men and trans and gender-diverse people too, and they often look different enough that nobody recognises them. Muscle dysmorphia, restrictive eating, binge eating, compulsive exercise and dysphoria-related body distress are all common and all under-treated.
We do not assume eating concerns are a women's issue, and we do not treat body image as though it sits apart from gender. Healthy body at every size.
Things people bring us
- Muscle dysmorphia, and the point where the gym stops being a choice
- Restrictive eating, and rules that started as control and became a cage
- Binge eating, where shame is the fuel and the fuel is the work
- Compulsive exercise, and movement that stopped being for you
- Dysphoria and the body, where gender and food collide
- Eating Disorder Plans, worth up to 40 Medicare-rebated sessions a year with a GP plan
For trauma
Paced by you, never rushed.
Trauma is not always a single event. It can be developmental, relational, systemic or identity-based: the accumulated harm of being marginalised, dismissed or unsafe.
We use EMDR and EMDR 2.0, Schema Therapy, ACT and trauma-informed CBT. Before any processing we build safety and stability. Your pace guides the work, you stay in control, and we plan endings from the beginning so that therapy itself does not become another thing that ends badly.
EMDR is delivered by our Principal Psychologist as one part of integrated therapy, usually in a standard session and sometimes up to 90 minutes. More on how we use EMDR. Under an insurance claim it needs separate pre-approval, and we sort that out with you. If you want the full symptom picture, that lives on Trauma and PTSD.
Things people bring us
- PTSD and complex trauma: single events, and the long layered kind
- Developmental and attachment trauma: what happened early, and what it taught you about people
- Dissociation, feeling far away, and finding the way back safely
- Identity-based trauma: the harm of stigma and minority stress, named as trauma
- Workplace injury: bullying, harassment and burnout, covered under WorkSafe Victoria where approved
- After violence or crime: Victims of Crime and the Financial Assistance Scheme, with care around evidence and court
When you need an answer
Liminal Screening and Assessment.
Clarity and guidance for the path ahead. Sometimes the first step is simply understanding what's happening: having language, clarity and a plan.
Neurospicy screening
First steps to understanding your brain. Education, questionnaires (30 to 60 minutes) and a 25-minute discussion with a summary email.
Screening →Neurospicy assessments
Neurodivergence-affirming diagnostic clarity for ADHD, autism and AuDHD. Written for real life, not just the file.
Assessments →WPATH letters
Gender-affirming care that supports your journey. Readiness assessments for gender-affirming surgery, typically 3 to 6 sessions.
WPATH letters →Four steps, at your pace
How to become a client.
Everyone starts the same way. New clients can't book directly: we read every enquiry first, so we can make sure we're the right clinic for you.
Send the enquiry form
Tell us what you're looking for and how you'd like us to reply. If forms are hard, say so, or phone us, and our Client Experience Team will fill it in with you over the phone.
About 5 minutesWe read it and reply
Our Client Experience Team reads every enquiry and replies within 2 business days. We'll ask you to complete a short Getting To Know You (GTKY) questionnaire and register, so we can check we're a good fit and match you with a clinician. If we're not the right clinic for you, we'll say so and suggest who might be.
Within 2 business daysSee your GP for a referral
Every client needs a GP referral before their first appointment. That includes people paying privately, and people funded by NDIS, WorkSafe, TAC or Victims of Crime. Your GP is the hub of your care. We need to be connected with them in case anything goes wrong, and so we can give you care built around you. Ask for a referral with your medications and medical history. If you'd like a Medicare rebate, also ask whether you're eligible for a Mental Health Treatment Plan, Eating Disorder Plan or Chronic Condition Management Plan.
Every clientBook your first appointment
Once you're accepted, we book your first appointment around your preferences, the right clinician and availability. It's about getting to know you, your history and your goals.
50 minutes
How we work
Every new client is screened.
We screen for neurodivergence and trauma as standard, from the start rather than years in. Screening tools are indicators, not diagnoses. Where a fuller picture would help, we say so and explain why.
This is how we provide neurodivergence- and trauma-informed care from the first session, and it follows Australian guidelines, research and evidence.
Bring the whole story.
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly. In Prahran or on a screen. Medium- to long-term, at your pace.