Jesse W K Rantamaki
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165-167 Drummond Street, Carlton, VIC 3053
Let's Connect 0439 679 927
I am a registered nurse and psychotherapist offering weekly therapy, counselling, and consultation for individuals navigating mental health challenges, substance use, trauma, or difficult life experiences.
With over a decade in public and private psychiatric settings — including acute care, suicide prevention, dual diagnosis, and community work — I bring both clinical expertise and a capacity to sit with the complexity of human suffering. I offer a space where therapy unfolds with emphasis to speaking, not as a set of instructions but as a process of exploring what matters, what repeats, and what might change.
I provide recovery-oriented, trauma-informed and person-centred treatment, with particular attention to each individual's own way of speaking and making sense of their experience.
At the same time, my work is rooted in a psychoanalytic orientation: I listen for the unconscious logic shaping experience, and for what might emerge in the act of speaking.
I have come to understand care and treatment not only as a clinical intervention but as "attention" — as the ethical act of being with another in their suffering.
Please feel free to reach out if you would like to speak further.
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Finances
Fees
- Concession rate: apply if you may be eligible
Insurance
- Any/Out-of-network Insurance
- NDIS
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today License: AHPRA / NMW0001948302 Jesse W K Rantamaki
- In Practice for 11 years
- Bachelor of Nursing, Degree, Graduated 2014
- License: AHPRA / NMW0001948302
- Membership with Australian College of Mental Health Nurses Member / 2014
- Membership with Freudian School of Melbourne, School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis Membership / 2016
Education and Years In Practice
Additional Credentials
Expertise and Interests
Top Expertise
- Psychosis
- Addiction
- Personality Disorders
Practice Areas
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Antisocial Personality
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Positivity
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Cancer
- Depression
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Emotional Disturbance
- LGBTQ+
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Relationship Issues
- Sex-Positive, Kink Allied
- Sexual Abuse
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Veterans
Client Focus
Age
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals ,
Family ,
Group
Communities
Aviation Professionals ,
Bisexual Allied ,
Deaf Allied ,
Gay Allied ,
HIV / AIDS Allied ,
Immuno-disorders ,
Intersex Allied ,
Lesbian Allied ,
Little Person Allied ,
Non-Binary Allied ,
Queer Allied ,
Racial Justice Allied ,
Sex Worker Allied ,
Single Mother ,
Transgender Allied
Age
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals ,
Family ,
Group
Communities
Aviation Professionals ,
Bisexual Allied ,
Deaf Allied ,
Gay Allied ,
HIV / AIDS Allied ,
Immuno-disorders ,
Intersex Allied ,
Lesbian Allied ,
Little Person Allied ,
Non-Binary Allied ,
Queer Allied ,
Racial Justice Allied ,
Sex Worker Allied ,
Single Mother ,
Transgender Allied
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Clinical Supervision and Qualified Supervisors
- Existential
- Family Systems
- Interpersonal
- Narrative
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Structural Family Therapy