Tunteeya Yamaoka , AHPRA

Tunteeya Yamaoka is an AHPRA-registered counsellor with ten years' clinical experience. She adopts a direct and honest style while staying kind and compassionate. She encourages people to bring their full range of feelings to sessions and helps them find purpose amid life’s ups and downs.

Her approach mixes practical conversation and gentle challenge. She helps clients notice patterns that keep them stuck, and then works on small, manageable changes. Sessions are aimed at real-life goals like reducing anxiety, improving relationships, or coping with major life changes.

Tunteeya has worked across private practice, hospitals, universities and corporate settings. This breadth means she is used to people from many walks of life and with varied concerns. She draws on both Eastern and Western ideas shaped by her multicultural background.

She commonly supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem and transitions in life. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, communication problems, infidelity, gender dysphoria, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose.

Sessions can be in English or Japanese. Outside of work she enjoys drawing, painting, running and cosy fiction, and brings that down-to-earth curiosity into her counselling style.

Practical therapy approaches and how they work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which can help with anxiety, low mood and life direction.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand connection and trust issues, and supports change in how they relate to others and to themselves.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with clients about their needs, goals and preferences and choose or combine methods collaboratively. Sessions aim to be practical and suited to each person’s situation rather than following a fixed script.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and use of visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit counselling around work or family life and to keep a conversation going between appointments. These options help people maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into busy schedules.