What we help with.
Named presentations, with what we actually do about each one and what we do not. Useful if you already have a word for it, or a diagnosis someone else gave you.
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By what is happening
ADHD
Adults, including the ones diagnosed late and the ones still deciding whether to be.
Read more →Autism
Adult assessment and support, including people who were missed as children.
Read more →Anxiety
Generalised, social, health, and the kind that only shows up as exhaustion.
Read more →Depression and low mood
Including the flat, functional version that does not look like depression from outside.
Read more →OCD
Obsessions and compulsions, including the ones nobody wants to say out loud.
Read more →Trauma and PTSD
Single-event, complex, developmental, and the trauma that comes from being treated badly for who you are.
Read more →Eating and body concerns
With particular attention to men and to trans and gender-diverse people.
Read more →2/3e
High cognitive ability alongside neurodivergence: too much and not enough at the same time.
Read more →Therapy approaches
CBT, DBT, ACT, Schema Therapy and EMDR: what each one is and when we use it.
Read more →The full list
Everything we work with.
Open a theme to see what is in it, and follow any line to read more. None of it needs a diagnosis to count.
Mood and everyday life12 topics
- AnxietyWorry that won't switch off, panic, social anxiety, health anxiety.
- Depression and low moodFlatness, numbness, or the kind of tired that sleep doesn't fix.
- Stress and burnoutWork, study, caring, masking, and finding a way to reset that isn't pushing harder.
- Adjustment and life transitionsEndings, beginnings, and the in-between: jobs, moves, break-ups, coming out, becoming.
- Grief and lossDeath, estrangement, miscarriage, the loss of a future you were counting on.
- Sleep difficultiesFalling asleep, staying asleep, and the 3am mind.
- Anger and emotional regulationWhen feelings arrive too fast and too big. DBT, ACT and CBT skills that respect who you are.
- Self-esteem and confidenceThe inner critic, imposter feelings, and learning to take up room.
- Work and study pressureDeadlines, performance, perfectionism, and workplaces that weren't built for your brain.
- Loneliness and isolationReal connection, with yourself first, then with others.
- Alcohol and other drugsNo lectures. Understanding what it's doing for you, and what else could.
- OCD and intrusive thoughtsObsessions, compulsions and the thoughts you'd never say out loud.
Neurodivergence8 topics
- ADHDDiagnosed, suspected, or late-realised. Executive functioning, rejection sensitivity, the shame that came with it.
- AutismAutistic adults, including those who learned to hide it well.
- AuDHDWhen both are true at once, and every strategy for one fights the other.
- Autistic and ADHD burnoutRecovery, unmasking, and rebuilding capacity at your own pace.
- Giftedness and twice-exceptionalHigh ability alongside ADHD, autism or a learning difference.
- Dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculiaLearning differences, and the school years that left a mark.
- Sensory overwhelmSound, light, touch, texture, and a room designed so you can stim, dim and move.
- Screening and assessmentNeurospicy screening and full ADHD, autism and AuDHD assessments.
Trauma8 topics
- PTSD and complex PTSDEMDR, schema therapy and a pace set by you.
- Childhood trauma and neglectThe things that happened, and the things that should have and didn't.
- Family violence and abuseSafety first. Then the rest, when you're ready.
- Sexual assaultSurvivor-led, at your pace, with nothing you have to prove.
- Religious and cultural traumaLeaving, staying, or living between, and the shame that came with it.
- Medical and healthcare traumaBeing dismissed, disbelieved or harmed by the people meant to help.
- Minority stress and discriminationThe daily weight of being othered, and what it does to a nervous system.
- DissociationFeeling far away, unreal, or not quite in your body.
Gender, sexuality and relationships7 topics
- Gender identity and affirmationExploration, transition, and WPATH letters at your pace. No gatekeeping dressed up as caution.
- Sexuality and coming outAt any age, in any order, to whoever you choose.
- RelationshipsThe same fight, the distance, the rules that stopped fitting. Any structure.
- Sex and intimacyDesire, closeness, pain, avoidance and identity, explored without shame.
- Sexual health and living with HIVInformed, friendly and unbothered.
- Kink, polyamory and non-monogamyUnderstood, not pathologised.
- Sex workSex work is work. Practical, affirming support.
Eating, body and health4 topics
- Eating and body imageFood rules, bingeing, restriction, and the mirror, including for men and trans people.
- Exercise and muscle-focused concernsWhen training stops being a choice.
- Body dysmorphiaThe flaw only you can see, and the hours it takes.
- Chronic illness, pain and disabilityLiving well in a body that needs accommodating, and a health system that often won't.
Identity, culture and belonging5 topics
- Intersectional identitiesThe different parts of who you are, held together, not one at a time.
- Culture, migration and faithBetween two worlds: being othered, and never quite belonging to either side.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clientsCulturally safe care, including for Sistergirls and Brotherboys.
- Family estrangementChoosing distance, having it chosen for you, and the grief either way.
- Something elseIf none of these fit, tell us what's going on. Most things do.
If nothing above fits
Not listed? Still welcome.
If nothing above quite matches what you are navigating, that does not mean we cannot help. Most things fit somewhere once we talk it through. If we are not the right clinic for it, we will say so and try to point you to someone who is. You might also look at Who we welcome, which speaks to specific communities rather than named conditions.
Not sure which of these you need?
That is a normal place to start, and working it out is part of the first appointment rather than something you have to do beforehand.