Itay Lahav, PACFA

Itay Lahav is a senior clinical practitioner and psychodynamic psychotherapist based in Australia, bringing 22 years of clinical experience to her work. She has completed advanced clinical training and holds credentials with PACFA (Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia), a recognised professional credential in the Australian counselling and psychotherapy sector.

Itay works with a wide range of mental health concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, sleep problems and presentations of personality disorder. She specialises in trauma, attachment issues and personal-integrative approaches that attend to the body-mind connection, helping clients explore how past experiences shape current patterns of thinking, feeling and relating.

Comfortable offering both short-term focused interventions and longer-term in-depth therapy, Itay supports people who want to address immediate problems as well as those seeking deeper exploration of development and meaning in their lives. The effectiveness and safety of the therapeutic relationship is central to her practice, and she adapts her clinical work to meet each client’s individual needs and goals.

Attachment, Psychodynamic and Trauma-Informed Online Therapy

Itay draws on psychodynamic therapy to help clients explore unconscious patterns, early relationships and recurring themes that influence current behaviour and emotional life; this approach is useful for people wanting to understand the origins of long-standing difficulties and to examine meaning and personal development.

Attachment-based therapy is used to address relationship patterns and attachment injuries, supporting clients to develop more secure ways of relating and to heal relational wounds. Trauma-focused therapy offers structured support for processing distressing experiences and reducing the ongoing impact of trauma, with attention to stabilisation and pacing to match each person’s readiness.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Itay works collaboratively with clients to identify the best fit based on their needs, goals and preferences. She may also draw on consultation with appropriately qualified or registered professionals when that will benefit care.

Online therapy with Itay is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, providing flexibility to fit different schedules and communication preferences. These options make it easier to access consistent support, continue work between sessions and choose the format that feels most comfortable for each client.