Oliver and Stuart offer online sessions via Zoom as well as in person sessions in our Mundaring based office. Louise offers only online sessions via Zoom.

We welcome all people, from all states and territories in Australia.

You can have an initial paid consult of 60 or 90 mins to assess the fit of the therapy with your practitioner.

Our most common arrangement with clients is to have an initial 60 or 90-minute session before we begin IFS therapy. This is a chance for us to connect and for you to share any important information or history which may be relevant to your sessions together.  It is also a chance for you and your practitioner to see if you are a good fit and chat about ongoing work together and what that may look like.

Oliver works:

Weekdays (excluding Wednesdays) 9:30 am – 2:45 pm AWST

Stuart works:

Tuesdays 9 am - 4:30 am AWST;

Wednesdays 9:30 am - 6:45 pm AWST;

Thursdays 9 am - 4:30 pm AWST

Louise works:

Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30 am - 5pm AEST

IFS sessions are 60 or 90 minutes. The fees vary between practitioners and and the price for your chosen practitioner should be asked upon booking.

Yes, IFS sessions are 90 minutes to allow time for the IFS process and the client’s system to unfold. I do offer flexibility to long-term clients when their needs require a shorter session.

No, you do not require any referral to see our practitioners. Our services are completely private and confidential, we do not report about you to Medicare or your GP.

We do not offer Medicare rebates under the Mental Health Plan. However, our fees are often equal to the gap clients pay to Psychologists or Psychiatrists after the rebate is applied.

We are no longer taking on international clients.

Each session runs for either 60 or 90 minutes. The purpose of the longer sessions is to allow clients the opportunity to go through the full IFS process in a single session. This does not happen every session but is more likely to happen in a single session when the session is 90 minutes.

IFS sessions are different from traditional talk therapy in several ways. Initially, we will invite you to share how you are and tell your story. Then we will summarize the different emotions/parts/behaviours which we hear. We will then ask you which emotion/part/behaviour you would like to focus on, understand better or help resolve. We will then guide you into a process known in IFS as Insight.

Insight may feel similar for some people to guided meditation. Often people close their eyes and we guide them using verbal cues and questions. The intention of my cues and questions is always to deepen their relationship with the part of them that they chose to focus on.

During insight, we will explore any protective parts around the target part, most IFS sessions are spent getting to know your protective system. During this process, you will gain clarity into why your personality is organised the way it is and how it protects you. You will also learn about the parts of you which were wounded (usually in childhood) which underpin your personality's protective parts.

When your protective system is ready, we will ask for permission to visit the wounded parts underneath which are stuck in the past holding hurt. IFS has a very specific and effective process to guide people through healing those parts holding burdened emotions and beliefs.

After an unburdening, there is an integration process where we will guide your protective parts to witness the one who was healed. They will then be able to do their own healing and take on new and healthy roles in your system (resolving or healing the emotions or behaviours you wanted to resolve). The complete IFS process does not happen in every session, although this is possible. Most often several sessions will be spent with the part being focused on and the protective parts around it before you build trust with them, they relax back and give permission for you to go to the wounded one.

IFS is not brief therapy. Similar to the body the psyche is multiple, complicated, and interconnected between its parts. It has many layers like an onion and sometimes entirely separate cloves like a clove of garlic. IFS therapy is a form of long-term psychotherapy. It needs to be said that some of the most frequently watched IFS demonstrations on the internet do not often resemble the experiences of IFS clients in therapy. Releasing and unburdening several parts which can happen in a single session does not often equal a change in behaviour or mood. Sometimes there are many layers and many parts which may use certain behaviours or contribute to feeling anxious or depressed. It’s more like building a relationship with many inner children and going back again and again. This client describes her psychotherapy experience well, read it here.

Oliver is comfortable working with most presenting issues and specialises in IFS for anxiety, depression, trauma, mental well-being, and spiritual development. He has tertiary training and expertise in psychology, counselling, and psychotherapy and advanced post-graduate training in counselling, psychotherapy, and IFS. Oliver participates in frequent and ongoing professional development each year to keep his knowledge and skills in these areas up to date and has regular professional supervision from a qualified counselling supervisor and a Certified IFS consultant, both individually and in professional consulting groups.

Oliver has over 5 years of experience as a Counsellor and Group Facilitator working for Relationships Australia WA. He has worked in RAWA’s Domestic Violence program, Child Contact Service, Employee Assistance Program, Relationship Education Service, and Counselling Service. Oliver has extensive experience counselling individual adults, couples, and children for most presenting issues.

Louise is comfortable working with most presenting issues and specialises in IFS for adults.

Louise has completed the IFS Online Circle, as well as Levels 1, 2 (Trauma and Neuroscience), and 3 training. Additionally, she had the privilege of serving as a Program Assistant (PA) for Level 1 online training in Australia and Poland. Louise’s IFS training also includes specialized workshops and continuity programs, such as Using IFS to Heal Our Relationships with Food and Body; IFS Treatment for Sexual Abuse Victims and Perpetrators; Working with Children and Adolescents; Depression, Anxiety, and Shame; Self-Leadership on Diversity and Inclusion; IFS Treatment for Restoring Health; and Behold and Lead the Internal Sexual System (BLISS).

Stuart is comfortable working with most presenting issues and specialises in IFS for emotional distress, relationship challenges, anxious or depressive feelings, trauma, addictive behaviours such as drinking, drug taking, gaming, porn use and eating, feeling lost, stuck or disconnected and the spiritually curious.

Stuart is a registered Counsellor (PACFA) with both a Degree and Masters in Counselling. His training in IFS has been through IFSCA having completed Stepping Stones and Stepping Deeper. Stuart has also completed numerous IFS workshops with Simon Dorsgna and Oliver Brooke and is continuing his IFS training via the IFS Institute. Before entering private practice Stuart worked as a counsellor with people with addiction challenges both in prisons and in the community.

No, this would be an ethical dilemma for our practitioners as your therapist as they would have already established a therapeutic relationship with you. We would suggest you see a qualified and experienced couples therapist. Please ask and we can make a referral for you to one we know and trust.

We do offer couples therapy online via Zoom and in person with Stuart at our Mundaring office.