Dr Sarah Walker sitting sideways on a bentwood chair in a blue shirt and cream linen trousers, laughing, in a bright empty room
Dr Sarah Walker sitting sideways on a bentwood chair in a blue shirt and cream linen trousers, laughing, in a bright empty room
Dr Sarah Walker sitting sideways on a bentwood chair in a blue shirt and cream linen trousers, laughing, in a bright empty room

Healing begins with understanding.

Healing begins with understanding.

Healing begins with understanding.

Symptoms are not signs of weakness. They are meaningful signals that, understood with compassion and curiosity, can become the pathway to healing.

Symptoms are not signs of weakness. They are meaningful signals that, understood with compassion and curiosity, can become the pathway to healing.

Symptoms are not signs of weakness. They are meaningful signals that, understood with compassion and curiosity, can become the pathway to healing.

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If you’ve been living with anxiety, trauma, emotional overwhelm or unexplained physical symptoms

Therapy can help uncover the patterns keeping you stuck and create meaningful, lasting change.

Dr Sarah offers individual therapy, clinician supervision, complex case consultation and Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)  training in Robina, Gold Coast and online.

A single budding branch in a rough stone vase, lit by soft afternoon light against a pale wall

If you’ve been living with anxiety, trauma, emotional overwhelm or unexplained physical symptoms

Therapy can help uncover the patterns keeping you stuck and create meaningful, lasting change.

Dr Sarah offers individual therapy, clinician supervision, complex case consultation and Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)  training in Robina, Gold Coast and online.

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Dr Sarah Walker, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA)

Dr Sarah Walker, Clinical Psychologist | Psychotherapist | IEDTA Accredited Therapist and Teacher

My approach is compassionate, focused and evidence-based. I work predominantly from an ISTDP framework, helping people understand the emotional patterns underlying longstanding difficulties and create meaningful change.

Alongside my clinical work, I supervise and train other mental health professionals.

Qualifications

Doctor of Clinical Psychology, University of Queensland

Registered Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA): PSY0000966143

ISTDP accredited therapist and teacher

Dr Sarah Walker leaning against a doorway in a blue shirt and linen trousers, arms folded, in soft window light

Dr Sarah Walker, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA)

Dr Sarah Walker, Clinical Psychologist | Psychotherapist | IEDTA Accredited Therapist and Teacher

My approach is compassionate, focused and evidence-based. I work predominantly from an ISTDP framework, helping people understand the emotional patterns underlying longstanding difficulties and create meaningful change.

Alongside my clinical work, I supervise and train other mental health professionals.

Qualifications

Doctor of Clinical Psychology, University of Queensland

Registered Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA): PSY0000966143

ISTDP accredited therapist and teacher

I create an atmosphere of compassion and focus that lets us get to the root of the problem in a considered, non-judgmental way.

Together we work through the patterns and obstacles behind the difficulties you are facing, keeping anxiety at a workable level so you can stay present while facing hard things.

I create an atmosphere of compassion and focus that lets us get to the root of the problem in a considered, non-judgmental way.

Together we work through the patterns and obstacles behind the difficulties you are facing, keeping anxiety at a workable level so you can stay present while facing hard things.

Getting started.

Medicare rebates available with a GP Mental Health Care Plan. Online and in person

01

Get in touch

Reach out through the contact form to ask about face to face availability.

02

Initial assessment

Initial appointments are generally 60 minutes. A longer initial consultation can be helpful in ISTDP, particularly when meeting face-to-face, and can be discussed depending on availability.

03

Ongoing sessions

After the first session, we arrange regular 50-minute appointments and review progress together as we go.

04

Consolidating change

As therapy progresses, we work towards understanding and changing the patterns that have kept you stuck, so that change can continue beyond the therapy room.

Getting started.

Medicare rebates available with a GP Mental Health Care Plan. Online and in person

01

Get in touch

Reach out through the contact form to ask about face to face availability.

02

Initial assessment

Initial appointments are generally 60 minutes. A longer initial consultation can be helpful in ISTDP, particularly when meeting face-to-face, and can be discussed depending on availability.

03

Ongoing sessions

After the first session, we arrange regular 50-minute appointments and review progress together as we go.

04

Consolidating change

As therapy progresses, we work towards understanding and changing the patterns that have kept you stuck, so that change can continue beyond the therapy room.

Getting started.

Medicare rebates available with a GP Mental Health Care Plan. Online and in person

01

Get in touch

Reach out through the contact form to ask about face to face availability.

02

Initial assessment

Initial appointments are generally 60 minutes. A longer initial consultation can be helpful in ISTDP, particularly when meeting face-to-face, and can be discussed depending on availability.

03

Ongoing sessions

After the first session, we arrange regular 50-minute appointments and review progress together as we go.

04

Consolidating change

As therapy progresses, we work towards understanding and changing the patterns that have kept you stuck, so that change can continue beyond the therapy room.

Taking the first step is the hardest part.

My private caseload is currently full. You are welcome to join the waitlist, and I am accepting clinicians for supervision and ISTDP training.

Join the waitlist

Taking the first step is the hardest part.

My private caseload is currently full. You are welcome to join the waitlist, and I am accepting clinicians for supervision and ISTDP training.

Join the waitlist

Dr Sarah Walker

Clinical Psychologist | Psychotherapist

Clinical Psychologist, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist.

AHPRA Licence number: PSY0000966143

Robina, Gold Coast · Online

contact@drsarah-walker.com · 07 5575 8855

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CONTACT

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