Online Therapy for Australian and Kiwi Expats.

The work

The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run through intake checklists or assign exercises between sessions. I pay attention to what happens in the room: what you're saying, what you're not saying, the moments when something shifts or goes flat or speeds up. That's the material we work with.

Most people arrive already knowing the story of their situation. They've told it to themselves a hundred times and always land in the same place. What's missing is a different angle, someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. That's what I offer. Not interpretation from a distance, but attention in the room, offered as it happens.

I work with individuals and couples. Individual work is usually about finding the pattern underneath the presenting problem, the thing that keeps recurring in different forms across different circumstances. Couples work is about finding what the argument is really about, which is rarely what it appears to be about. Both come down to the same thing: seeing what you haven't been able to see, and from there, actually being able to do something different.

Why Aussies and Kiwis abroad come to therapy

Distance is the defining fact of the Australian and New Zealand expat experience. Home is a twenty-four-hour flight and most of a day's time difference away, so the people who would steady you are asleep when you need them, and the casual support of being among your own is simply gone. Over the top of that sits the laconic culture around feelings, she'll be right, harden up, no worries, which is good for getting on with things and bad for admitting that you are not, in fact, fine.

I am American-trained and work with Australian and Kiwi expats across the world. The work is in English, at depth, completely private, and scheduled around the time difference rather than against it.

What Aussie and Kiwi expats bring

The shapes recur across the diaspora. The London-based professional, the classic landing spot. The finance, mining, and engineering crowd in the Gulf and Asia. The academic, the healthcare worker, the working-holidayer whose year quietly became a decade. The homesickness amplified by sheer distance. The time-zone isolation that makes a hard night harder. The stoic, understated culture around emotion that leaves a lot unsaid, and the marriage or the drinking or the drift that builds up underneath it with nowhere to go.

The arrangement

I am a US-trained psychodynamic therapist working online and privately, in English. The time difference is large, so we find a workable window, usually a morning or evening slot on your side, held each week. No insurance billing, no diagnosis, no clinical record. You pay directly, in any currency. We start with a free 15-minute call.

Questions Aussie and Kiwi expats ask

What people bring to online therapy

The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.

How it works

Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a free 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.