Holistic Mental Health Support for Children, Young People & Adults.

About Dorian:

Dorian is a holistic mental health professional offering counselling & psychotherapy with children, young people and adults. He holds professional registration with PACFA as a Counsellor, specializing in holistic practice, process-oriented psychotherapy (process work) and child & adolescent mental health. Dorian has over ten years combined experience in Individual and Group Process Facilitation, Youth Mental Health Care, Suicide Intervention, Clinical Leadership, Youth Correctional Counselling and Youth Case Management, where he was a finalist for two awards highlighting his excellence in the field.

In addition to postgraduate studies in Counselling & Psychotherapy (specializing in Process Work), Dorian has achieved a Bachelor degree in Community Development (with Psychology), along with additional professional development in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Emotion Focussed Therapy (EFT), IFS (internal family systems), treating PTSD & complex trauma, Suicide Intervention, Suicide to Hope, Interpersonal Neurobiology/ Child Development, Attachment-based Child, Family & Play Therapy as well as meditative modalities.

How does it work?

Dorian offers a form of integrative psychotherapy that incorporates multiple therapeutic modalities and takes the whole person into consideration to provide safe, person-centered and empowerment-based mental health support.

“My unique style of psychotherapy aligns with the intelligence of your naturally unfolding process to support compassionate awareness, embodied integration and self discovery in the context of challenge, disconnection or uncertainty.

Many human beings begin life with an embodied connection to their Essence (Self Energy or Soul). I understand human functioning and wellbeing as arising from the complex interplay between internal and external influences that either enhance or interrupt this connection. For children and adolescents, there is a specific emphasis on the significance of safe attachment (and relationship) on brain/ nervous system development and therefore mental health and wellbeing. I believe that for all human beings, the capacity to enter into meaningful and compassionate relationship with one’s self (including all parts) is the doorway to healing, self discovery and wellbeing. My work aims to support this process through the restoration of embodied connection to one’s internal world (psyche), with an emphasis on tracking, sitting with and unfolding emerging processes within a field of safety and compassion. Whether it’s a challenge, disturbance or wound from the past or present, I aim to support you to transform and integrate marginalised experiences, emotions & parts of self through the power of their own wisdom, expression and worth.

My work aims to facilitate a robust foundation for mental/emotional wellbeing by addressing issues at their root, while employing tools, strategies and interventions that support internal safety and compassion, healthy coping and distress tolerance, nervous system and emotion regulation, healthy attachment & relational dynamics, as well as greater self worth, meaning & purpose. My goal is to support children, adolescents and adults to become integrated human beings who are meaningfully connected to themselves and the world around them.”

Some of the tools and understandings that underpin this work are: 

Process work/ process-oriented Psychotherapy: Unfolding whatever naturally presents itself in the moment through multiple channels of experiential awareness, presence and expression. This can include emotion focussed process facilitation through movement, somatic work, parts work, role-play and conflict work.

This can also include trauma work to witness marginalized aspects/parts, validate their experience, facilitate the expression of their pain and address their un-met needs.

Interpersonal Neurobiology: Interpersonal neurobiology, developed by Dr Dan Siegel, brings together all schools of modern scientific thought to provide a comprehensive understanding and roadmap of parenting and child development that emphasises the role of attachment and relationship in shaping brain & nervous system development.

Meditative Practices: Grounded in unconditional self-compassion, acceptance and awareness, meditative and breath-work practices work multidimensionally with the body & psyche to facilitate present moment awareness, grounding as well as nervous system & emotion regulation.

Other Psychotherapy Modalities: Drawing on a wide range of tools, strategies and techniques from Emotion Focussed Therapy, Internal family Systems, Attachment-based therapies, play therapy, mindfulness-based therapies, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and risk management tools.

Dorian offers sessions in multiple areas of need/focus:

Family & relationship issues 

Life changes & transitions

Identity challenges

Anxiety 

Trauma

Abuse & neglect

Stress & burnout

Grief & loss

Depression & low mood

Suicidal Ideation

Self Worth & self esteem issues

Addictions & addictive tendencies

Navigating teenage years

Issues with school or work

Problematic or challenging behaviours

Healthy coping strategies

Conflict

Professional support and supervision

Please click enquire now (below) to find out more, or if you have already been in touch and want to proceed, please click/ complete the intake form (below). (If you resonate with this approach but are struggling with an issue that is not listed above, please still feel free to enquire now.)

Please note: Sessions are only being offered online until further notice - Wait times may apply.

Service Costs:

1hr therapy session (online) - $150

1hr professional mentoring/ supervision (online) - $150

1hr therapy session - concession (online) - $80 - $100

1hr professional mentoring/ supervision - concession or student (online) - $80 - $100

U R G E N T  S U P P O R T

This is a non-urgent and non-acute service. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis that requires urgent attention please contact 000 in a life threatening emergency, or for urgent mental health advice contact:

-CAMHS Crisis Connect 24/7 on 1800 048 636 (if under 18 in Perth WA);

-MHERL 24/7 on 1300 555 788 (if over 18 in Perth WA) or

-Rurallink 24/7 on 1800 552 022 (if located in regional WA).

If you are located outside of Western Australia please seek advice from your local emergency department or crisis mental health service.

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I acknowledge the Whadjuck people of the Noongar Nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which I live and work. I pay my respect to Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. I acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.