Tunteeya Yamaoka

Tunteeya Yamaoka offers direct, honest therapeutic work delivered from a compassionate place. She may sometimes say things clients do not want to hear, but does so with the client’s best interest in mind and with kindness. She encourages clients to feel and express a full range of emotions while recognising that life is rarely black and white.

By acknowledging difficult moments, Tunteeya supports people to also notice moments of light and laughter and to recognise the pain they may carry. Her aim is to create a non-judgmental space where people can speak freely, clarify purpose, and move forward toward a more meaningful direction in life.

Across a decade of practice, she has worked with children, teenagers, adults and couples in private practice, clinical settings, public and private hospitals, universities and corporate organisations. She has supported people experiencing anxiety, perfectionism, trauma, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD).

Tunteeya’s mixed racial background (Japanese and Ghanaian) and Australian cultural identity shape her approach to psychology. She integrates Eastern and Western methods and draws on travel and multicultural experience to relate to people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Her clinical interests include perfectionism, generalised and social anxiety, OCD, ADHD, cross-cultural psychology, trauma and identity work, careers coaching and life transitions. Tunteeya is a female therapist and a therapist of colour who works from a non-religious perspective.

Outside of therapy she enjoys drawing and painting, running, crocheting, reading cosy fiction and exercising at the gym.

For more information about in-person appointments in Melbourne visit: www.ikigaipsychology.com.au