Counsellor profile
Yvette Strawbridge, PACFA
PACFA counsellor - relationship and family support
Continue with YvetteAbout
- Client-centred therapy
- Expressive methods
- Family dispute mediation
About Yvette
Yvette Strawbridge is a PACFA counsellor and psychotherapist with 32 years' experience in Australia. She works with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and self-esteem. Her practice also covers a wide range of related problems including divorce and separation, blended family issues, communication problems, and isolation or loneliness.
Yvette uses client-centred therapy as her core approach. That means sessions focus on the person's experience and choices rather than a rigid protocol. She pairs talk work with expressive methods such as sand tray, art therapy and psychodrama when these suit a person's needs and preferences.
Her background includes work as an Accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner and mediator. She has experience seeing children and adolescents who are experiencing difficulties after parental separation and in Child Inclusive Mediation. Yvette draws on decades of practice to help adults address family patterns and parenting stresses.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical. She helps people talk through relationship conflicts, rebuild intimacy, and manage guilt, shame or grief. For those facing serious health issues she offers support around end-of-life and hospice concerns as one part of her broader practice.
Because she works with a broad range of issues, Yvette usually discusses which methods will help most at an early appointment. This lets adults focused on household strains decide how best to bring concerns into session and what to expect from ongoing work.
How sessions work
How client-centred work translates to online sessions
Client-centred therapy places the person's experience at the centre of sessions. The therapist listens, reflects and helps clarify choices. This approach suits relationship problems, intimacy concerns and self-esteem work because it focuses on how the person wants to change.Expressive therapies such as art-based work, sand tray and psychodrama are used when appropriate. These methods let people show feelings that can be hard to name, which can be useful for trauma, family conflict and grief. Yvette discusses which expressive tools might be helpful before using them online.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide what methods fit their needs and goals. That discussion usually happens in the first few sessions so the plan can be adjusted as things move forward.
The biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow short check-ins when that suits a client. It can also make using expressive exercises more flexible depending on what materials and space someone has available.
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Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
32+ years
Listed in
Australia
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of family and relationship concerns does she help with?
She works with relationship and family issues including communication problems, infidelity, divorce and separation, blended family concerns, and family of origin difficulties.
What style of therapy does she use?
Her main approach is client-centred therapy, focusing on the person's experience and choices. She also uses expressive therapies like sand tray, art therapy and psychodrama when helpful.
How much experience does she have?
She has 32 years of clinical experience working in counselling, psychotherapy and mediation roles across a range of family and relationship issues.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is listed with PACFA and practises in Australia.
Are sessions offered in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to meet with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.