DEIRDRE ROLFE
Clinical Counsellor | Psychotherapist | Level 4 Supervisor | Clinical Hypnotherapist
Depth-oriented, trauma-informed psychotherapy for those seeking more than symptom relief.
Working with trauma, complex trauma, narcissistic abuse recovery, dissociation, anxiety, grief, addictions, existential crisis, and the long psychological effects of adversity through evidence-based, somatic, symbolic, and deeply integrative therapy.
Online worldwide | Private practice in country Victoria, Australia
Evidence-based. Existential. Embodied.
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WELCOME TO MY SITE
With more than three decades of professional experience, I work as a Clinical Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Level 4 Supervisor, Clinical Hypnotherapist, author, and creator of original therapeutic models and resources. I am the author of You Are as Sick as Your Secrets: Trauma Understands Trauma, Dark Contracts, and The TR6 Trauma Model, and the creator of TraumaCode: Symbols, Metaphors and Rituals, a 96-card and booklet system for personal development and therapeutic insight.
Throughout my career I have worked in private practice and held senior clinical roles, including Head Therapist in dual-diagnosis retreat settings. This breadth of experience has given me a deep and practical understanding of trauma, addiction, anxiety, relational injury, and the complex ways people learn to survive what has happened to them.
If you have arrived here carrying the layered weight of trauma, grief, anxiety, abuse, loss, addiction, or years of unprocessed life experience, you are in the right place.
This is depth work.
I work with the complexities of trauma, narcissistic abuse recovery, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, dissociation, stress, anxiety, childhood abuse, PTSD, complex trauma, grief and loss, suicidality, resilience, existential growth, addictions, weight-related struggles, smoking cessation, and the accumulated burden of life’s ingested pain.
I treat the whole person as a unique psychological system with multiple parts, contradictions, defences, longings, adaptations, and strengths. I work not only with what is conscious and visible, but with what sits underneath: the unconscious pattern, the embodied wound, the defended story, the symbolic language, and the parts of the self that have had to split, silence, protect, or endure.
My work integrates evidence-based psychological treatments with a broader existential, Jungian, somatic, and symbolic approach. I draw from EMDR, CBT, ACT, DBT, NLP, clinical and medical hypnosis, parts therapy, ego state work, narrative therapy, psychodrama, psycholinguistic inquiry, somatic body work, breathwork, mindfulness, modern Buddhist principles, symbolism, rituals, metaphor, shadow work, philosophy, and nature-based reflection. I also integrate my own original clinical framework, including the TR6 Trauma Model and Assessment.
These modalities are not used as scattered techniques. They are woven together carefully according to the person, the problem, the readiness, and the depth of work required.
As a therapist, I am not interested only in symptom management. I am interested in the deeper architecture of suffering and healing. I want to understand how a person has come to be organised as they are, what has been defended against, what keeps repeating, what the body is carrying, what the psyche is trying to express, and what needs to be made conscious in order for change to become real.
This means therapy with me is not superficial. It is engaged, thoughtful, strategic, and often profound. It may involve unpacking trauma, working through resistance, understanding repeated patterns, bringing language to what has never fully been named, reworking the internal story, and helping a person move from fragmentation toward integration.
I believe healing often requires us to go beyond conventional language and beyond the limits of purely linear understanding. Sometimes the unconscious speaks through image, body, symbol, ritual, dream, metaphor, contradiction, and felt sense. Sometimes the deepest truth of a person’s suffering is not sitting on the surface waiting to be explained. It must be approached with care, depth, courage, and skill.
That is the work I do.
I offer a therapeutic process that is evidence based, psychologically rigorous, and deeply human. My aim is to help people not simply cope, but become more conscious, more integrated, more resilient, and more able to live from a stronger and more authentic centre.
I also offer educational courses and professional training grounded in my clinical work. This includes training in an original trauma model developed through many years of observation, practice, and theoretical refinement, which has now been accepted for peer-reviewed publication and will be further developed following the publication of the article. The model provides a structured framework for understanding how trauma may progress through identifiable psychological and somatic stages, and how therapeutic intervention can support movement toward integration, resilience, and recovery. Forthcoming training will be available for practitioners and helping professionals who wish to apply the model clinically and deepen their work through a more existential, stage-informed, and therapeutically rigorous lens.
In addition, I offer educational courses in resilience, self-regulation, and psychological structure, including the C.A.L.M. framework, which is designed to help people remain adaptive and steady in periods of chaos and high stress. I also offer supervision for individuals and groups, and mentoring for practitioners, coaches, and helping professionals seeking greater depth, confidence, and clarity in their work.
My additional training includes MATES in Construction suicide prevention and LivingWorks suicide prevention training.
I do not offer automated online booking. That is a conscious choice. Therapy is personal, and I prefer direct contact so that I can respond in a way that respects both your needs and the realities of timing, depth, and fit. I walk my talk. I work with flexibility, discernment, and care. Where appropriate, I may offer times outside standard hours if that serves the work well for both of us.
Please take the time to explore the site. I hope you will find something here that speaks to you, challenges you, steadies you, or opens a new way of understanding your own healing.
If you are seeking a therapist, supervisor, or guide for serious inner work, you are welcome to contact me.
Kindest regards,
Deirdre Rolfe
