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Psychotherapy encompasses a range of different therapeutic modalities which aim to treat various presentations of mental health issues, emotional distress and a wide range of mental health disorders.
At Mindscape Therapy, our clinicians in Melbourne draw on multiple evidence-based modalities to create personalised treatment plans that meet you where you are. Whether you’re seeking relief from trauma, emotional regulation support, or deeper self-understanding, we integrate the most appropriate therapeutic approaches for your situation.
Psychotherapy Melbourne at Mindscape Therapy takes a flexible, client-centred approach. Different people respond to different therapeutic modalities, and some challenges require specific evidence-based interventions. Our clinicians are trained in multiple approaches, allowing us to match treatment methods to your needs rather than forcing you into a single framework.
Below are the core modalities we offer, each described in terms of what it is, how it works, and when it’s most commonly used. Many clients benefit from integrative approaches combining elements from several modalities.
Schema Therapy is an integrative approach developed by Dr Jeffrey Young that combines elements from CBT, psychodynamic therapy, attachment theory, and gestalt therapy. It focuses on identifying and healing early maladaptive schemas—deeply ingrained patterns or themes developed in childhood that continue to affect adult functioning.
Schema therapy identifies 18 specific schemas across five domains (disconnection and rejection, impaired autonomy, impaired limits, other-directedness, and vigilance and inhibition). Treatment involves schema assessment, experiential techniques like chair work and imagery rescripting, and developing healthy adult modes to counteract unhelpful childhood coping patterns. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a vehicle for providing corrective emotional experiences.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a non-pathologising, evidence-based model of psychotherapy developed by Dr Richard Schwartz in the 1980s. It recognises that each person’s psyche contains multiple distinct “parts”—sub-personalities with their own perspectives, feelings, and memories—all overseen by a core Self that is inherently calm, curious, compassionate, and confident.
IFS therapy helps clients identify and understand their internal parts system, including protective parts (managers and firefighters) that try to keep them safe through controlling behaviours or numbing, and exiled parts that carry pain, shame, or trauma from the past. The therapist guides clients to access their Self energy—curiosity, compassion, and clarity—and build relationships with their parts. Through this process, parts are unburdened from extreme roles, conflicts are resolved, and inner harmony is restored.
Somatic psychotherapy is a body-based approach to healing that works with nervous system responses, physical sensations, posture, breath, movement, and embodied awareness. It recognises that trauma, stress, and emotional patterns are stored not just in the mind but in the body, and that addressing physical manifestations is essential for complete healing.
Somatic therapy helps clients develop awareness of bodily sensations and how they relate to emotional states and past experiences. Techniques may include breathwork, gentle movement, grounding exercises, tracking sensation changes, and releasing stored tension. The therapist guides clients to notice how their body responds in the present moment while exploring connections to past events, creating pathways for the nervous system to shift from survival states (fight, flight, freeze) toward safety and regulation.
Somatic psychotherapy is a body-based approach to healing that works with nervous system responses, physical sensations, posture, breath, movement, and embodied awareness. It recognises that trauma, stress, and emotional patterns are stored not just in the mind but in the body, and that addressing physical manifestations is essential for complete healing.
Somatic therapy helps clients develop awareness of bodily sensations and how they relate to emotional states and past experiences. Techniques may include breathwork, gentle movement, grounding exercises, tracking sensation changes, and releasing stored tension. The therapist guides clients to notice how their body responds in the present moment while exploring connections to past events, creating pathways for the nervous system to shift from survival states (fight, flight, freeze) toward safety and regulation.
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