About Michaela
Michaela Levas is a psychotherapist who combines trauma-aware psychotherapy with clinical hypnosis, ego state techniques and narrative work. She uses clear, direct conversation to help people spot their repeating patterns and find the small changes that make life feel safer and clearer. Michaela is registered with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).
She aims to help people understand how early experiences and current habits shape feelings and choices.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on recognising triggers, naming parts of the self, and practising different responses in day-to-day situations. Michaela guides clients to reconnect with inner clarity and build practical steps that match their values. Her approach mixes gentle curiosity with structured exercises.
That can mean using imagery, talking through difficult moments, and short in-session experiments to try new ways of being. The emphasis is on learning, then practising, until new patterns become easier. Over four years of clinical work has included helping people with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, self-esteem and coping with life changes.
Michaela also supports those dealing with ADHD-related challenges and a range of attachment or abandonment issues. She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life. People who meet with her can expect a collaborative style.
Goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made. The focus is on turning insight into action so clients feel more able to choose how they respond.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Many of Michaela's methods translate well to remote sessions. Narrative work helps people tell and reframe their life story, spotting unhelpful themes and testing new meanings in everyday life. Ego state techniques involve recognising and working with different parts of the self to reduce conflict and ease overwhelming feelings. Clinical hypnosis uses guided imagery and focused attention to encourage calmer states and support behaviour change.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Michaela treats therapy as a collaboration and will help clients try different methods to see what suits their needs, goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what feels most helpful.
Online formats offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or useful for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between longer sessions and fit therapy around work and family commitments. These options aim to make regular therapy easier to maintain while still focusing on meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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