Clinical Psychologist & Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
Dr Sarah-Jane Dempsey provides psychodynamic psychotherapy for adults, adolescents (15+) and couples, offering a safe, confidential, and non-judgemental space to explore your inner world. Therapy provides an opportunity to reflect on your thoughts, emotions, and relationships, helping you understand how past experiences, often outside conscious awareness, shape the way you live and connect today. Through this process, insight grows, patterns can shift, and a sense of freedom and choice can emerge. Given the depth of this work, Dr Sarah-Jane offers medium to long term therapy, with an option for shorter term work where appropriate. Sessions are available in person in Richmond, online, or via telephone.
Dr Sarah-Jane provides psychodynamic psychotherapy for adults, adolescents (15+) and couples, offering a safe, confidential, and non-judgemental space to explore your inner world. Therapy provides an opportunity to reflect on your thoughts, emotions, and relationships, helping you understand how past experiences, often outside conscious awareness, shape the way you live and connect today. Through this process, insight grows, patterns can shift, and a sense of freedom and choice can emerge. Given the depth of this work, Dr Sarah-Jane offers medium to long term therapy, with an option for shorter term work where appropriate. Sessions are available in person in Richmond, online, or via telephone.
Adults come to therapy for many reasons, including:
Anxiety, depression, stress, or low self-esteem
Challenges in relationships, intimacy, or sexuality
Life transitions such as parenthood, career changes, or loss
Recurrent patterns of self-sabotage or dissatisfaction
Questions of identity, direction, and personal growth
Trauma, grief, or health-related issues
For many, therapy becomes not only a response to difficulty, but also a place of growth — a space to imagine new possibilities, strengthen resilience, and live with greater ease and authenticity.
Adolescents may engage in therapy to:
Therapy offers a supportive environment where adolescents can understand themselves, build resilience, and discover strategies for navigating the challenges of growing up.
Couples often enter into therapy to:
Couples therapy offers a safe space to slow down, reflect, and listen — to ourselves and to one another. It is an opportunity to uncover the patterns that keep partners stuck and to find new ways of relating.
Some of the key areas Dr Sarah-Jane works with include:
Anxiety
Depression
Stress and sleep difficulties
Trauma
Grief and loss
Relationship and intimacy issues
Neurodivergence
OCD
Bipolar Disorder
Self-esteem and identity challenges
Family of origin and background issues
Sexual and emotional abuse
Life adjustment and career challenges
Social isolation or loneliness
Disordered eating
Personality and behavioural concerns
Dr Sarah-Jane provides individual clinical supervision for both new and experienced psychotherapists. She is a AHPRA Board Approved Supervisor. Supervision is psychodynamically oriented, confidential, and attentive to the full experience of the supervisee. Sessions explore not only the content of therapy, but also the thoughts, feelings, and responses that arise in the therapist, fostering insight, reflection, and professional growth.