Itay LahavPACFA

Itay Lahav is a PACFA-credentialled psychodynamic practitioner with 22 years of clinical experience. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, sleep problems and depression. She also works with trauma and attachment issues and supports people exploring body-mind connections in their day-to-day life.

Itay offers both short-term focused work and longer-term in-depth therapy. Sessions are aimed at helping clients feel understood and at making small, practical changes that improve daily functioning. She pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns and relationships, and helps people notice repeating dynamics that cause pain.

Her style is grounded and relational. She listens closely and mirrors what she hears so clients can see their own responses more clearly. Conversations often move between feelings in the body and the stories people tell about themselves, with an aim of helping them make different choices.

Trauma-informed thinking shapes much of her practice without being the only focus. She supports people to build a steadier sense of connection to themselves, to regulate strong emotions, and to experiment with new ways of relating. Practical steps and reflection are balanced according to each person's needs.

Itay works from Australia and conducts therapy in English. She aims to create a dependable space where clients can talk through difficult memories, painful patterns, and decisions about the future.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Itay works with attachment-based and trauma-focused ideas to guide therapy. Attachment-based work focuses on how early and ongoing relationships shape how people relate now, and helps with issues like trust, closeness and fear of abandonment. Trauma-focused therapy attends to the effects of distressing events and supports people to reduce overwhelming reactions and reconnect with daily life.

Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, history and current needs, then suggest where to begin. This means the plan can change as trust and clarity grow during therapy.

The profile does not specify particular online formats, so confirm available session types before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Appropriately qualified counsellors can adapt attachment and trauma-focused work to an online setting while attending to pacing, emotional regulation and practical grounding techniques.