Hypnotherapy

Psychotherapy

James Walker

My practice uses hypnotherapy and psychotherapy.   Hypnotherapy is effective and efficient for various conditions including, anxiety, sense-of-self, habit modification, smoking cessation, weight management, sleep disorders, pain management, fears, interpersonal difficulties, and trauma-related issues.

Hypnotherapy can pragmatically provide symptom relief and if appropriate, can address underpinning determinants with psychotherapy approaches. This approach efficiently increases your self-awareness by exploring and managing influences on your perceptions, thoughts and responses.

The practice caters for adults, adolescents and children. 

Please contact me to discuss any aspect of my work and how it may help. We can meet in East Melbourne or via Zoom.

Phone: 0417 669 992 Email: james@trieb.com.au

The word ‘Trieb’ was used by Sigmund Freud to mean a person’s drive and desire - the focus of my practice

James Walker

  • Trained in psychotherapy and hypnosis in Australia and the USA

  • Practiced at County USC Hospital Los Angeles

  • Practiced as Clinical Psychology Registrar at the Austin Hospital adolescent unit

  • Studied child psychoanalysis at Monash University

  • Completing the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis four-year program

  • Psychotherapy and the Clinical Issues program Victorian Government Health Department

  • University award for research and teaching for National Institutes of Mental Health

  • Hypnosis research including sports applications USA and Australia

  • Taught at the University of Southern California, later at the American University Graduate School with appointment at Georgetown University Washington D.C.

  • Psychometric consultant California State Government

  • Methods advisor Graduate School USC

I have presented conference papers, and numerous workshops on psychoanalytic and coaching topics in Australia, USA and Europe. After teaching in Melbourne I studied, lectured, and practiced in the United States . My initial psychotherapy training was in Gestalt therapy and psychoanalysis which I practiced in the USA and later in Melbourne. Professor Perry London who was a pioneer in child hypnosis and guided my initial work and with whom I later published. On returning to Australia, I attended the Melbourne University hypnosis program with Professor Graham Burrows, during which I led research into hypnosis applications for anxiety in sport . Concurrently I have provided instituional consulting for impasse management.