My name is Jess Armitage. I am a Clinical Psychologist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist working in private practice in Melbourne. I provide individual psychotherapy for adults. I have worked with people from all kinds of backgrounds who are facing a wide range of challenges. Before private practice I worked in hospitals, domestic violence and sexual abuse services, alcohol and drug services, and child and family services.

I have been trained in and influenced by a variety of therapeutic approaches, but primarily practice from a psychoanalytic perspective. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a depth based therapeutic approach that focuses on self understanding and self liberation from within a holding therapeutic relationship. I support patients to understand the origins of their distress and explore new ways of being.

Presentations

• Anxiety and depression

• Relationship and family issues

• Grief and loss

• Complex trauma

• Alcohol and drug use

• Eating and body image issues

• Chronic health issues

• Existential issues

Registrations & Memberships

Registered Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

Endorsement in Clinical Psychology with AHPRA

Member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP)

Qualifications & Education

Master of Clinical Psychology, Queensland University of Technology

Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Honours Psychology), Queensland University of Technology

Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, William Alanson White Institute

Models of the Mind, Australian Psychoanalytic Society