Location
All Covid-19 protocols will strictly adhere. If you are unwell or primary household contact, please opt to do the session via telehealth.
About
My journey of adversity, grief, loss & marginalisation led me to uncovering the intelligence of our brain & nervous system. Via my insight that 'repeatedly talking 'about' my challenges didn't serve me, I specialised in body-based creative modalities. I focus on body-based processes that ground us in the tumultuous inner world and regulate us in the outer environment I am an expert in inviting creative expression, building strength & somatic resourcing and sensory bottom-up awareness. I affirm all abilities, gender preferences, cultural identities and neurodivergence. I am interested in adapting the therapeutic processes to meet U.
My therapeutic style is open, warm & collaborative. You can bring all of YOU to me in your inner and outer world. I offer you a truthful presence & affirming voice to OWN your body, mind, gender, identity and relationship. As someone straddling multiple identities, including a parent, racial minority, migrant and female. I can be your ALLY.
Through in-search and practice, I have discovered the critical role of somatic anchors, creativity, spontaneity and imagination for mental health & emotional well-being. Most people assume that intensive work happens when you see a talk therapist, I can assure you that the most transformative healing occurs while engaging our curiosity, imagination & play.
Jaya Narayan
“Hello - Please contact me if you like to work in ways other than verbal modalities. ”
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Call or Email Jaya Narayan for a free 15 minute consultation now - (03) 8400 0948
Finances
- Cost per Session: $160 - $190
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 12 Years
- Membership: Australian Counselling Association / Level 3 Member
- Training: Masters in Creative Arts therapy from Melbourne institute of experential creative arts therapy / 2019
A lived experience practitioner who uses somatic therapy, expressive art(s) therapy and Psychodrama for trauma-informed psychotherapy.
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne / Associate Director in Psychodrama & Group Psychotherapy / 2020
- Diploma: Womens Christian College / Advanced diploma in Expressive arts therapy / 2013
Jaya Narayan's Groups
Online group for culturally diverse individuals
Online series to experience the intersection of creative arts, Psychodrama & somatic practices.
Location
Specialties
- Trauma and PTSD
- Anxiety
- Chronic Illness
Issues
- Adoption
- Anger Management
- Behavioural Issues
- Bereavement
- Career Guidance
- Child
- Chronic Pain
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Emotional Disturbance
- Emotional regulation
- Family Conflict
- Impact of Childhood attachment on adults
- Infertility
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sexual Abuse
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Women's Issues
Mental Health
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Mood Disorders
Sexuality
- Bisexual
- LGBTQ+
- Lesbian
Client Focus
Ethnicity:
Asian and Other Racial or Ethnic Background
I also speak:
Hindi, Kannada and Tamil
Age
- Adults
- Teen
- Preteen
- Children (6 to 10)
Communities
- Body Positivity
- Immuno-disorders
- Non-Binary Allied
- Queer Allied
- Racial Justice Allied
- Single Mother
- Veterans
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Coaching
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Energy Psychology
- Experiential Therapy
- Expressive Arts
- Family Systems
- Gestalt
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Interpersonal
- Jungian
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Multicultural
- Narrative
- Person-Centred
- Play Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Psychodrama / Drama therapy
- Relational
- Somatic
- Somatic practices
- Strength-Based
- Transpersonal
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Group
Last Modified: 13 Aug 2022
(03) 8400 0948