I hold a Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy, a Graduate Diploma of Counselling, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts. I have completed specialised training in Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples, individuals, and families. I am currently undertaking a Master of Science in Medicine (Psychosexual Health pathway) at the University of Sydney, alongside an intensive three-year, supervision-focused training in the Conversational Model through ANZAP. I have also completed training in coding the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI).

My professional history includes work across a range of clinical and community settings, including alcohol and other drug services, non-government organisations, private hospital environments, and residential treatment facilities.

In private practice, I work with individuals, couples, and families, with a particular focus on the relational patterns that shape emotional experience and interpersonal connection. My approach is grounded in a relational psychodynamic framework, informed by attachment theory and the Conversational Model. I am interested in how a person’s sense of self emerges within relationship, and how difficulties are often organised within implicit relational patterns that are enacted in the present moment.

Therapeutically, I attend closely to the unfolding process between therapist and client, using the immediacy of the therapeutic relationship as a site for exploration and change. This involves working with affect as it arises in-session, supporting the articulation of previously unformulated experience, and facilitating new ways of relating that can be internalised beyond the therapy room. Alongside this, Emotionally Focused Therapy informs my work with couples and families, where the focus is on identifying and reshaping negative interactional cycles and strengthening secure emotional bonds.

Prior to my clinical training, I worked as a remedial massage therapist and taught yoga, meditation, and dance. This background has shaped my interest in the interface between somatic experience and psychological process. It underpins a focus on embodied awareness, interoceptive sensitivity, and relational attunement, which I integrate with formal training in psychodynamic and attachment-based modalities. Together, these inform a reflexive, relational, and developmentally attuned approach to therapeutic work.

Memberships

Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) Member number 28084

Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy (ANZAP)

International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEFT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy & Training Australia

Brisbane Centre for EFT (BCEFT)

Society of Australian Sexologists

International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy (IARPP) Member Number 4057

When we are truly seen, heard, and emotionally held in relationship, the conditions for growth emerge - allowing us to move towards more secure ways of being with ourselves and others.

Renée Davies - she/her