If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic. If you are in crisis, these helplines can help:
Crisis numbers in Australia
- Lifeline 13 11 14: Tel: 13 11 14 | Text: 0477 13 11 14. 24 hours.
- Suicide Call Back Service: Tel: 1300 659 467. 24 hours. For ages 15 and over.
- Beyond Blue support service: Tel: 1300 22 4636. 24 hours.
- 13YARN: Tel: 13 92 76. 24 hours.
- SuicideLine Victoria: Tel: 1300 651 251. 24 hours. For ages 15 and over.
- All crisis lines in Australia
This page lists Female Anxiety Psychoanalysts in Melbourne. 3 in all.
That is 3 of the 4 psychoanalysts listed in Melbourne.
These are practitioners who identify as female on their profile 1. We ask every therapist that question, and they may decline to answer. We do not check it.
This list answers an explicit request for a woman.
A client and a practitioner always differ; what matters is what that means to you and how you work with it 2. You can filter the same list by the languages a practitioner works in.
How anxiety is treated
Anxiety treatment is for fear and worry that persist and get in the way.
The treatments with the most evidence are based on cognitive-behavioural principles 3. That includes exposure therapy, where you face what you have been avoiding, a step at a time.
A prescriber may also consider medicine, depending on age and severity 4.
What a psychoanalyst does, and how often the sessions run
Everyone on this page describes their work as psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic therapy. You talk as freely as you can, and the analyst listens for patterns. The analyst also listens for how those patterns appear between you both.
Analysis usually means several meetings a week, agreed between you and the analyst. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy uses the same ideas once or twice a week.
The work runs open-ended rather than to a fixed number of sessions.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the practitioner's stated Female identity, the specialism recorded as Anxiety and the professional title psychoanalyst.
The Melbourne page answers more questions about therapy there.
What therapy costs here
Do affordable options exist in Melbourne?
Cairnmillar Institute Community Clinic. Phone 1800 391 393. Community Clinic sessions are free. The clinic is open to the public and you do not need a referral. Its locations include Melbourne CBD and Hawthorn.
Who registers therapists in Australia?
See the Australia page for the professions that do carry a register there.
Nearby places and related listings
- Anxiety Psychoanalysts in Melbourne
- Female Anxiety Counsellors in Melbourne
- Female Anxiety Psychologists in Melbourne
- Female Anxiety Psychotherapists in Melbourne
- Female Depression Psychoanalysts in Melbourne
- Male Psychologists in Melbourne, one filter on the full Melbourne psychologists list
- Psychologists in Melbourne
- Psychoanalysts in Melbourne
- Every therapist listed in Melbourne (113)
- Couples counselling, Melbourne
References
[1] TherapyRoute's own records.
[2] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, p. 120. Client-therapist similarities.
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
