AMANDA BIRKBECK

EMDR PSYCHOTHERAPIST

Amanda is a trauma-informed  Psychotherapist with a special emphasis on EMDR therapy, which she utilises as a key approach to promoting deep trauma healing. Currently accepting new clients, Amanda is passionate about fostering community, connection, and creativity. By combining EMDR with art-making, she offers a holistic and client-led healing journey within a safe, welcoming, and non-judgmental therapeutic environment. Her integrative approach helps clients process and resolve trauma while nurturing emotional well-being and personal growth.

Offering women’s circles, group work, and one-on-one sessions tailored to individuals’ unique needs, with a focus on positive psychology, narrative therapy, and DBT. Amanda specialises in working with neurodiversity, trauma, the LGBTQIA+ community, social inequity, anxiety, and depression.

She has several years’ experience working with young people and adults, and completed a bachelors of English Language and Literature at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania before completing the certificate and diploma programs from the College for Educational and Clinical Art Therapy (CECAT), then completing her masters degree in Art Therapy from Western Sydney University.

She is a Marsha Linehan certified DBT skills practitioner and a member of the Australian, New Zealand, and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association (ANZACATA) and the International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT).