Psychotherapy

Psychodynamic therapy increases your self-awareness by exploring conscious and unconscious influences on present thoughts and behavior. Understanding your perception of yourself and others provides the basis for change and alleviates issues including depression, interpersonal difficulties, anxiety, and the effects of influence on you. Adults, Adolescents and Children

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherpay is a refined and relaxed level of concentration entirely under your control. It is effective for a wide range of difficulties including: stress, anxiety, depression, stopping smoking, panic attacks, anger, trauma, phobias, pain, insomnia, weight control, sense-of-self, relationships, job issues, coping with medical/dental procedures, post traumatic stress. For children: bed wetting, test anxiety, fears, stress, oppositional behaviour, friendship problems, anger, sibling issues

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

  • Member of the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and the Clinical Issues program of the Victorian Government Health Department

  • University's award for research and teaching with the National Institutes of Mental Health

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

I have presented conference papers, and numerous workshops on psychoanalytic and coaching topics in Australia, USA and Europe. While Clinical Psychology Registrar at the Austin Hospital I completed the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis program, the Clinical Psychology Boards Programme, and was selected to particulate in the Department of Health’s one year ‘Clinical Issues in Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy’ program. I studied child psychoanalysis through the Monash University’s Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program.

Hypnosis and psychotherapy training was initially at USC, with supervision by Professor Perry London who was a pioneer in child hypnosis and with whom I published. Later, I practiced in Washington DC. On returning to Australia, I attended the Melbourne University hypnosis program with Professor Graham Burrows, during which I led research into hypnosis applications in tennis ('The Effects of Hypnotic Support on States of Subjective Self-Awareness for Competitive Tennis Performance: a Quasi-Experiential Design').