Therapeutic Approach - Working Together

At Attuned Hearts Psychology, we recognise that people come to therapy with differing needs — sometimes to better understand themselves, sometimes for support and practical ways forward, and sometimes to simply feel heard when life gets hard.

Often, this follows a period where people have been doing their best to cope, using the strategies that once helped, but finding they’re no longer enough.

Therapy with Charlotte offers a thoughtful space to pause and reflect on what has been unfolding, and to consider what might be helpful now.

This often involves exploring together a person’s experiences — past and present — how these have shaped their responses, and identifying core needs that may help guide meaningful and sustainable change.

At Attuned Hearts Psychology, therapy is shaped around the individual, with care taken to understand each person in context and to work at a pace that feels supportive and manageable.

• Anxiety, stress, and overwhelm
• Low mood, depression, and emotional distress
• Trauma-related difficulties, including complex and developmental trauma
• Relationship and attachment-related concerns
• Difficulties with boundaries, assertiveness, or conflict
• Life transitions, identity questions, and adjustment challenges
• Grief and loss
• Workplace stress and burnout
• Health-related anxiety and chronic health or pain concerns
• Neurodivergence, including ADHD and autism (support & screening)
• Parenting, family, and relational challenges
• Self-esteem, self-confidence, and identity crises
• Sleep difficulties
• Sexual health and intimacy concerns
• LGBTIQA+ related experiences & affirmative care

While Attuned Hearts Psychology offers support for a range of emotional and relational concerns, the following presentations fall outside the scope of this practice:

• Couples or relationship therapy
• Eating disorders
• Substance use or addiction-related concerns, including gambling
• Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) where specialist treatment is required 
• Gender Assessments
• Neurocognitive Assessments, including formal Autism & ADHD diagnostics
• Schizophrenia spectrum or other psychotic disorders 
• Domestic or family violence, including situations involving current safety risks
   

Where assessment, specialist intervention, or formal reporting is required, alternative referral pathways through a general practitioner may be more appropriate.

Therapy at Attuned Hearts Psychology is grounded in a range of established, evidence-based therapeutic frameworks. 

Therapy is shaped in collaboration with each person and draws from approaches such as Schema-focused Therapy (SFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), motivational interviewing, solution-focused approaches, and family systems-informed work. 

These approaches are used flexibly and thoughtfully, within a relational, trauma-aware, and attachment-informed framework. This allows therapy to be guided by research while remaining responsive to the person as a whole, the context, and their lived experience.

Attuned Hearts Psychology is a therapy-focused practice and is not able to provide the following services:

1. One-off assessments for report-writing purposes
2. Legal, medico-legal, insurance, WorkCover, or court-related assessments or reports
3.  Centrelink reports (including Disability Support Pension), NDIS assessments, or funding-related documentation 
4. Neurocognitive assessments, including formal ADHD or autism spectrum disorder assessments
    

 Where assessment or formal reporting is required, alternative referral pathways through a general practitioner may be more appropriate.