Yvette Strawbridge

Yvette Strawbridge is a Clinical Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Credentialed Mental Health Practitioner with 32 years of experience in Australia. She works with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues and self-esteem. Her profile notes work with a wide range of additional issues including ageing, autism, blended family problems, cancer, separation and end-of-life matters.

She uses a client-centred approach that focuses on the person's needs and perspectives. That means conversations begin with what the person brings and then explore practical ways forward. Yvette also draws on brief solution-focused ideas when clients want targeted change in a shorter time frame.

Her practice includes talk therapy and expressive methods such as sand tray, art therapy and psychodrama. These options are used to give different ways to express feelings and work through difficult memories. Yvette is also an Accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner and mediator, and she has experience supporting children and adolescents after parental separation through child inclusive mediation.

Sessions address concrete problems like communication breakdown, infidelity or family of origin issues, as well as deeply personal concerns such as guilt, shame and isolation. She also works with matters that arise around ageing, hospice and end-of-life counselling. The approach is practical and person-focused, with attention to emotional and relational patterns.

Clients can expect an experienced clinician who combines talk-based work with creative techniques. Yvette's long experience means she is familiar with complex family situations and trauma-related presentations. For anyone unsure what to do next, she helps people talk through where they are and consider steps forward.

How client-centred work translates to online sessions

Yvette uses Client-Centred Therapy in her work, which focuses on listening closely to the person's experience and responding to their needs. This approach helps with relationship issues, self-esteem concerns and processing difficult emotions by centring the client's perspective and pacing the work to what feels manageable.

She also uses solution-focused ideas when a client prefers concrete goals and shorter-term change. That approach narrows the work to practical steps and small experiments that can be reviewed each session. Together these methods give room for deeper exploration and also moments of focused problem solving.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Yvette will work collaboratively with each person to decide what methods fit their situation, goals and preferences. She discusses options and adjusts the balance of expressive, talk-based and solution-focused work as sessions progress.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm the available online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, allow a shorter check-in when needed, or remove the need to travel. These practical benefits help people keep therapy consistent while they manage work, family and other commitments.