Itay Lahav, PACFA

Itay Lahav is a psychodynamic psychotherapist with 22 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, sleep difficulties and the effects of trauma and abuse. Her approach is calm and direct, aimed at making sessions feel useful from the first meeting.

Itay focuses on attachment issues and the connections between body and mind. She works with personality-related concerns and complex presentations such as dissociation, co-morbidity and chronic illness. People come to her wanting both short-term relief and longer-term personal exploration.

Her work draws on psychodynamic ideas alongside client-centred and attachment-based methods. In practice this means listening closely to how early relationships and life events shaped current patterns, while keeping the person's goals in view. She uses trauma-focused methods when traumatic experiences are central to the distress.

Sessions may include talking about feelings and memories, noticing bodily reactions, and developing new ways of responding to triggers and relationship patterns. Itay aims to create a steady working relationship where difficult material can be approached at a careful pace.

Itay is credentialed with PACFA in Australia. She offers a flexible mix of shorter, goal-focused work and longer, in-depth therapy depending on what a person needs.

How these approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how those patterns affect current connections and choices. It is useful for people who struggle with trust, closeness or repeated relationship conflict.

Psychodynamic Therapy focuses on recurring themes and unconscious patterns that influence mood and behaviour. It helps when someone wants to understand why they repeat certain choices or feel stuck in particular roles.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and it is handled together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, then shape the work to fit those needs in a collaborative way.

For practicalities, confirm the available session options before booking because formats are not specified here. Many people find online sessions help fit therapy into busy lives by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a workday or making it easier to keep regular appointments. Talk can be as focused on immediate problems or as exploratory as needed, depending on the person’s goals.