Psychotherapy
Jake’s psychotherapeutic practice is grounded in a person-centred, integrative framework that honours the uniqueness of each individual, with a particular emphasis on addressing trauma, attachment wounds, and the embodied experience.
Drawing on his specialised training in Attachment Theory, Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT), and Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy, Jake is passionate about navigating the emotional complexities of trauma and attachment-related challenges.
Jake’s particular interest lies in the intersection of trauma, attachment, and the body. He is always seeking to create a safe therapeutic space where clients can reconnect with their innate capacity for resilience and well-being.
Attachment Theory
Attachment theory, pioneered by John Bowlby, posits that early interactions with primary caregivers form enduring relational patterns and self-concepts that influence our emotional regulation, self-worth, and relationships throughout life. These experiences manifest as attachment styles—secure, anxious, avoidant, or disorganised. These styles, in turn, shape how individuals seek proximity, respond to stress, and navigate intimacy.
In psychotherapy, attachment theory is invaluable for identifying and repairing attachment wounds. Therapeutic interventions, such as Comprehensive Attachment Repair, facilitate the development of ‘earned secure attachment’ by establishing an internal safe relational base and exploring past attachment experiences. By enhancing attachment security, therapy empowers clients to build healthier relationships, improve emotional regulation, and live more meaningful lives.
Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT)
Mentalising refers to the essential human capacity to interpret and understand one’s own mental states, as well as those of others, in terms of thoughts, feelings, wishes, and desires. This reflective process is foundational to healthy psychological functioning, enabling meaningful relationships, coherent self-organisation, and effective social learning. High mentalising fosters empathy, emotional regulation, and resilience, allowing individuals to navigate interpersonal dynamics with greater insight and accuracy.
In psychotherapy, Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT) proves particularly valuable by enhancing this capacity. Research demonstrates that MBT improves metacognitive abilities, promoting overall psychological well-being and relational growth. By cultivating one’s reflective function, therapy empowers clients to achieve greater self-awareness and more meaningful relationships, underscoring its essential role in therapeutic growth.
Embodied Perspectives
Embodied perspectives in psychotherapy state that human experience is fundamentally rooted in the body, where cognition, emotion, and relational processes are dynamically connected and intertwined. This approach recognises how early-life trauma, attachment wounds and daily difficulties manifest as bodily reactions, feelings and sensations. As a result, paying attention to how these experiences arise in the body is an essential element of growth in psychotherapy.
By attuning to the body’s felt-sense, therapy facilitates the cultivation of embodied safety, release of tension and procedural learning. Consequently, treatment methods encompass a range of cognitive, emotion-focused and body-based techniques.
Specialisations
- Anxiety
- Stress
- Depression
- Grief & Loss Separation
- Trauma
- Anger
- Attachment
- Self-Esteem
- Life Transition
- Relationship issues
- Increase Self-Awareness
- Mental Health
- Self Development
- Develop self- confidence
- Body image
- Communication
- Conflict
- Life Purpose
- Illness affecting quality of life
- Decision making
Pricing
Psychotherapy
- Jake is only able to take psychotherapy bookings through the Australian Centre for Embodied Practice. Follow link below.
Jake offers rebated sessions by certain private health insurers, the NDIS and the National Redress Scheme.