Itay Lahav, PACFA

Itay Lahav is a senior clinical practitioner and psychodynamic psychotherapist with advanced clinical training and 22 years of professional experience in Australia. She works across a broad range of mental health concerns, bringing particular focus to trauma, attachment difficulties, and personal-integrative work that attends to the body-mind connection.

She is credentialed with PACFA, the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia, which denotes professional membership within the Australian psychotherapy and counselling community. Comfortable working with complex presentations, she has experience supporting people with personality disorder, chronic stress and anxiety, relationship strain, sleeping problems, and depression.

Itay supports clients exploring personal development, life meaning, and relational patterns, offering both shorter-term focused work and longer-term, in-depth therapy depending on individual needs. Her practice emphasises a thoughtful, psychodynamic approach alongside attachment-informed perspectives and trauma work, tailoring interventions to the person rather than to a single technique.

The therapeutic relationship and its effectiveness are central to her practice. She aims to create a safe, steady framework in which clients can explore symptoms, patterns, and recovery at a pace that suits their goals and circumstances.

Attachment and Trauma-Informed Approaches in Online Therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current emotional responses and relational patterns. It helps people understand and shift repeating dynamics in close relationships, which can reduce anxiety about abandonment, improve connection, and support healthier bonds.

Psychodynamic Therapy explores unconscious patterns, past experiences, and internal conflicts that influence present feelings and behaviours. It is well suited to people wanting to understand deeper life themes, personality-related difficulties, or long-standing emotional patterns.

Trauma-Focused Therapy works directly with the effects of traumatic experiences to reduce distressing symptoms and improve functioning. It offers pathways for processing difficult memories and rebuilding emotional regulation after abuse or other traumatic events.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Itay Lahav collaborates with clients to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the focus over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with licensed professionals offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call or phone, and additional support can be provided through live chat or text-based messaging. This range of options helps clients fit therapy into busy lives, access care from home, and maintain continuity of support when in-person visits are difficult.