Yvette Strawbridge, PACFA

Yvette Strawbridge is a highly experienced Clinical Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Credentialed Mental Health Practitioner who brings a holistic, client-centered focus to work with individuals, couples and families. With 32 years in the field, she integrates a biopsychosocial framework that attends to mind, body and spirit while drawing on both talk therapy and expressive techniques such as sand tray, art therapy and psychodrama to address complex emotional and relational concerns.

She also practises from a Solution Focused Brief Therapy perspective when appropriate, helping people identify strengths and practical steps toward change. As an Accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner and Mediator, she supports children, adolescents and parents through separation and offers Child Inclusive Mediation to help families navigate post-separation difficulties.

Yvette holds PACFA credentials, indicating professional membership among counsellors and psychotherapists in Australia, and she applies that training to areas including relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns and self-esteem work. Her additional focus areas include aging and geriatric matters, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family challenges, cancer and hospice support, communication and control issues, divorce and separation, forgiveness, gender dysphoria, guilt and shame, infidelity and loneliness.

Her practice blends mediation skills, clinical counselling and expressive modalities to tailor care to each person or family, with an emphasis on collaboration, practical problem solving and fostering healthier connections.

Client-Centered and Solution-Focused Online Support

Yvette Strawbridge uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, empathetic space where the person or family sets the pace and goals of the work. This approach emphasizes understanding each person from their own perspective and is often helpful for relationship strains, self-esteem issues and intimacy concerns.

She also draws on Solution Focused Brief Therapy to help people identify strengths and actionable steps toward change, making it a practical option for communication problems, life transitions and focused goals. In addition, expressive therapies such as sand tray, art therapy and psychodrama are used when visual or creative methods can access emotions and family dynamics that are hard to put into words.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Yvette will work with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and to connect with a licensed professional from different locations within Australia. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to choose the format that feels most accessible and comfortable.