Accredited EMDR Practitioner Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AMHSW)

Tessa is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AMHSW) and EMDR therapist with extensive experience working therapeutically with children, young people, and adults. As an EMDR therapist, Tessa understands that psychological symptoms are rooted in past experiences that the body and mind have been unable to digest. As a social worker, Tessa sees individuals within their broader context, influenced not only by personal factors but also by the systems and institutions in which they develop such as family, culture, education, religion, and political and economic systems.

Tessa assists people who have experienced trauma at any stage of life to recover from these experiences and their consequences, supporting them to grow and focus on what gives their life meaning now.

Tessa works with her clients respectfully, empathically, and collaboratively, recognising them as the expert in their own experience. She believes that all people have the capacity for healing and using EMDR therapy assists her clients to access the body’s natural, innate, healing mechanisms.

Tessa can work with clients to address: 

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and complex trauma

• Recent traumatic events (trained in R-TEP and G-TEP to provide early intervention EMDR to both individuals and groups)

• Childhood abuse and neglect

• Difficult early relationships with caregivers / attachment wounds

• Anxiety and depression

• Experiences of sexual assault

• Negative self-beliefs, low self-esteem