Online Psychologist Australia | Natasha Kiemel | Telehealth Psychology for Women

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is available as online psychology sessions across Australia. CBT is a collaborative, goal-oriented approach focused on identifying and shifting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours that may be affecting your wellbeing. Throughout our sessions, you’ll learn practical strategies to challenge negative thinking and develop skills that support confidence and resilience. Practical tools can help you untangle overwhelming thoughts and find a clearer path forward.

CBT helps address a wide range of concerns:

• Anxiety and panic attacks

• Depression and low mood

• Post-traumatic stress and trauma-related difficulties

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

• Social anxiety and shyness

• Stress and burnout

• Sleep issues

• Relationship challenges

Evidence supports CBT for a broad spectrum of mental health issues. Its skills can provide lifelong tools for managing stress, tackling setbacks, and making positive changes.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is delivered via virtual online therapy, designed to support women throughout Australia. ACT guides you to accept challenging emotions, connect with your personal values, and commit to actions that bring meaning and purpose. Sessions focus on psychological flexibility – learning to make room for difficult feelings while still moving toward what matters most to you with openness, resilience, and self‑compassion.

ACT can provide support with:

• Chronic worry or rumination

• Stress and anxiety

• Depression and low mood

• Avoidance of difficult emotions

• Perfectionism or self-criticism

• Relationship challenges

• Feeling disconnected from your values

• Managing long-term health or pain

As research grows, ACT is increasingly relied on for both everyday stress and complex life difficulties. If you would like support to move forward in a values-based direction, ACT can offer simple yet powerful strategies.

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is accessible as an online option for women and girls across Australia. EMDR uses a structured, eight-phase process involving bilateral stimulation techniques like eye movements or tapping while focusing on unwanted memories or emotions. A structured approach helps process difficult memories so they do not feel as heavy in your daily life. This process is designed to reduce distress and create more adaptive perspectives over time.

EMDR assists with:

• PTSD and complex trauma

• Anxiety and panic

• Depression

• Grief, loss, and significant life changes

• Repetitive negative thoughts and flashbacks

• Sleep difficulties or distressing memories

• Perinatal and postnatal symptoms and traumas

With training in complex trauma EMDR and neurodiversity-affirming practice, sessions are adapted to support your needs and pace. EMDR has a robust evidence base for trauma recovery delivered online or in-person. Learn more at my my comprehensive EMDR page.

Comprehensive Behavioural Intervention for Tics (CBiT)

Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBiT) is an interactive online therapy available Australia-wide for people living with Tourette syndrome or persistent tic disorders. CBiT combines awareness training, habit reversal, and tailored behavioural strategies. Sessions focus on building tools to manage tics in daily life.

CBiT can help with:

• Tourette syndrome

• Persistent motor or vocal tics

• Anxiety or social challenges linked to tics

• Functional problems at school, work or in social settings

CBiT is widely recommended internationally as a first-line intervention for tic disorders, with research showing its usefulness for both children and adults. CBiT often involves 8 to 10 weekly sessions. Find more details on my CBiT and tics page.

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)

DBT is offered via online counselling for women across Australia. DBT combines cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness strategies to help people manage strong emotions, tolerate distress, and build healthy relationships. It offers skills to help you navigate intense emotions and build steadier ground beneath your feet.

If you find yourself experiencing intense feelings, acting impulsively, or facing relationship challenges, DBT provides structured tools for everyday living.

DBT can help with:

• Intense emotions or mood swings

• Relationship conflict

• Impulsivity

• Managing distressing thoughts or urges

• Fear of abandonment

• Disturbed sense of self

• Chronic emptiness

DBT teaches four core skill areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. It’s evidence-backed for people seeking support to work through overwhelming or persistent emotional challenges.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is available as virtual sessions across Australia. This approach recognises that trauma and stress affect both mind and body. It is a gentle, body‑based way of tuning into what your body is holding and beginning to release what is no longer helpful. By bringing mindful awareness to sensations, posture and movement, sessions can support your natural process of working through difficult experiences.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can provide support with:

• Trauma and PTSD

• Feeling disconnected from your body

• Physical symptoms tied to stress or anxiety

• Chronic muscular tension

• Somatic symptoms related to trauma

With roots in neuroscience, mindfulness, and attachment research, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is adapted for online care and is well-supported in the evidence.

Transformational Chairwork Technique

Transformational Chairwork is facilitated as online sessions, using the "empty chair" technique to help you explore, process, and find insight into challenging feelings, relationship patterns, or inner conflicts in a virtual format. Transformational Chairwork uses dialogue and role play to promote understanding, emotional growth, and self-reflection.

Transformational Chairwork can help with:

• Unresolved trauma

• Grief or loss

• Relationship patterns

• Internal critic or self-doubt

• Making difficult decisions or processing 'unfinished' experiences

The Transformational Chairwork technique is a well-researched experiential method, supporting new perspectives and greater clarity. Telehealth sessions make Transformational Chairwork accessible for anyone in Australia.

Mindfulness-Based Approaches

Mindfulness-based therapy with a telehealth psychologist is available as online sessions throughout Australia. These approaches focus on present-moment awareness and noticing thoughts, emotions, and sensations without judgement. Simple practices help you slow down, notice what is happening inside, and respond with more ease. In your sessions, you might practise mindfulness exercises, explore breathwork, and develop ways to ease tension and support wellbeing.

Mindfulness-based approaches can provide support with:

• Anxiety and worry

• Depression and low mood

• Chronic pain

• Stress and burnout

• Sleep concerns

• Physical symptoms linked to stress

• Building everyday resilience

Research in Australia and internationally supports mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and similar approaches for a wide range of mental health needs.

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT)

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy is offered via telehealth with an online psychologist anywhere in Australia. REBT uses a collaborative, practical approach to help identify, challenge, and shift unhelpful beliefs. You’ll work on building healthier thinking habits and practising strategies that help with daily challenges.

REBT can assist with:

• Anxiety and excessive worry

• Depression and low mood

• Anger or frustration

• Stress-related challenges

• Self-criticism

• Difficulties in emotional regulation

There is strong evidence that REBT helps people manage and understand their thoughts and emotions, building lifelong skills for psychological flexibility.

Narrative Therapy

Narrative Therapy is delivered in online sessions for individuals, couples, and families across Australia. This approach helps you look at the stories you tell about your life, seeing problems as separate from you and bringing your strengths and values into focus. Together, we can explore the stories you hold about who you are and gently shape new ones that fit better.

Narrative Therapy can help with:

• Anxiety and depression

• Adjusting to life changes

• Trauma or difficult memories

• Relationship and family challenges

• Identity or cultural questions

• Rebuilding confidence after setbacks

Originally developed in Australia, narrative therapy is a well-supported way for people to make sense of challenges and create preferred stories for their lives.