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
After my journey of adversity, grief, loss & marginalisation, I uncovered the brain & nervous system's response to stress and distress. Through my experience of how 'repeatedly talking 'about' an issue (or challenge) didn't serve me, I specialised in non-verbal body-based modalities. I am an expert in invoking creative expression and building strength and resourcing through imagination and somatic practices. Sensory bottom-up awareness grounds us in the tumultuous inner world and tides us over hurdles in the outer context. Whether you are young or old, new to therapy or have been in therapy before, I can adapt my process to meet YOU
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 AM 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: $150 - $180
- 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
- Depression
Issues
- Adoption
- Anger Management
- Behavioural Issues
- Bereavement
- Career Guidance
- Child
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Pain
- Coping Skills
- 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
- 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: 11 Apr 2022
(03) 8400 0948