Beyond Bad Dreams: Recognizing Nightmares as Suicide Risk Indicators
Importance of assessing for nightmares when assessing suicide risk and effective treatment approaches including Internal Family Systems therapy and EMDR
Miss Samantha Taffe
Psychotherapist
verified by TherapyRoute
“Offers compassionate psychotherapy specialising in Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, Eating disorders, Suicidality, and PTSD. Guiding clients to explore their parts with curiosity, patience, and openness, supporting recovery and a deeper connection to Self.”
About Me
At Let's Work On That, we invite you to explore your inner world with genuine curiosity. Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, we compassionately guide you to understand the different parts of yourself. This approach helps those feeling conflicted or overwhelmed, offering a path to greater self-awareness and lasting recovery. We believe in your perseverance as you uncover new strengths and find inner balance.
Approach
Therapy unfolds as a careful choreography of noticing, naming and gently rearranging the voices inside you so that distress becomes navigable rather than overwhelming. In Brunswick or online in English, sessions are steady and collaborative — we track sensations, slow down activating moments, and try small experiments between meetings to test new ways of relating to urges, food, memories or self-criticism. I pace work to your tolerance, using grounding and guided attention to build safety. People facing trauma, eating struggles or persistent inner conflict often find this approach steadying.
Services
Services Offered:
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Clinical Supervision
Professional oversight and reflective practice for clinical practitioners, ensuring quality of care and supporting ongoing development.
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Counseling
A form of talk therapy providing a safe, confidential space to explore feelings, thoughts, and behaviours with a trained professional.
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Relationship Counseling
Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.
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EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, a therapy that uses guided eye movements to help the brain process and integrate traumatic memories.
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Individual Therapy
One-on-one therapy sessions between a client and a therapist, focused on that person's specific concerns and goals.
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Psychiatric Social Work
Social work services for people with mental health conditions, assisting with access to care, housing, benefits, and community integration.
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Schema Therapy
A therapy that identifies deep, long-standing emotional patterns (schemas) formed in childhood and works to change the ones that cause recurring problems.
Learn more about Schema Therapy
Works With:
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Area of Expertise
Scope of Practice:
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Eating Disorders
A group of conditions, including anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating, involving disturbed eating behaviours and a distorted relationship with food and body image.
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Mood Disorder
A category of mental health conditions, including depression and bipolar disorder, in which a person's emotional state is significantly and persistently disrupted.
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Personality Difficulties
Long-standing patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating to others that cause persistent distress or problems in relationships and daily life.
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PTSD
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a condition that develops after a traumatic event, causing flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, and emotional numbness.
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Suicidal Thoughts
Thoughts about ending one's own life, ranging from passive wishes to active plans. This is a sign of severe emotional distress that requires professional support.
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Suicide Bereavement or Crisis
The grief of losing someone to suicide, or being in a state of suicidal crisis oneself, both carrying unique psychological weight that differs from other forms of loss.
Learn more about Suicide Bereavement or Crisis
Professional Title:
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Psychotherapist
A professional trained to provide in-depth therapy that explores patterns in thoughts, emotions, and relationships to produce lasting change.
Qualifications
Australian College of Applied Psychology
Charles Sturt University (CSU)
Griffith University
Registrations
Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
Psychotherapist/ Social worker
