About Mim
Mim Gavel is a Swedish psychologist and psychotherapist practising in Australia with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or low self‑esteem. She also works with those facing relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and motivation challenges.
Mim believes people know their own story and bring strengths into therapy. She uses straightforward conversation to help clients spot patterns and try small, practical changes.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build skills that can be used between meetings as well as during them. Her background as a psychologist and psychotherapist shapes a calm, focused style. Mim listens for what matters most to each person and tailors the pace accordingly.
She encourages realistic goals and celebrates small steps forward. Mim has a broad interest in family of origin issues, attachment concerns, abandonment and adoption topics, and the stresses carers face. She also supports people managing blended family dynamics, relationship communication problems, separation and divorce, and health‑related stress such as cancer caregiving strain.
Sessions are offered in English and Swedish. Mim works with individuals to address co‑occurring concerns such as anxiety with depression, dependent personality patterns, control issues, and commitment worries. She aims to help people feel more able to cope and make clearer choices about their next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and remote sessions that fit your life
Mim practises evidence‑based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try different responses in day‑to‑day situations; this can be useful for anxiety, stress and low mood. Another approach focuses on understanding attachment and relational patterns, which helps when past losses, abandonment or family‑of‑origin issues affect current relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Mim works with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences and the challenges they bring. Together they try approaches and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy gives practical options to fit busy lives. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can be a simpler way to check in when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text‑based messaging suit shorter check‑ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent from day to day and to fit sessions around work, caregiving or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Swedish
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