Psychotherapy

James Walker

I help adults, teenagers, children, couples, and families with a range of challenges like psychological distress, behavioural problems, and mental health conditions.

My goal is to help you understand your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours so you can develop effective coping strategies and build a positive self-image. I use evidence-based approaches to help you make lasting, positive changes in your life.

Whether you prefer to meet in my office or via Zoom, our sessions are always comfortable and confidential. I use a blend of approaches, including cognitive-behavioural therapy, interpersonal therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and hypnosis, to help you explore and resolve your concerns.

Many people find my work helpful for conditions such as; depression, anxiety, trauma, habits and compulsions, relationship issues, low self-esteem, sleep difficulties, life changes, and other challenges.

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@jameswalker.net.au

James Walker

  • Trained in psychotherapy and hypnosis in Australia and the USA

  • Practised at County USC Hospital Los Angeles

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

  • Studied child psychoanalysis at Monash University

  • Completed the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis four-year program

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

  • Received 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

After teaching in Melbourne I studied, lectured, and practised in the United States . My initial psychotherapy training was in Gestalt therapy and psychoanalysis which I practised in the USA and then in Melbourne.  Professor Perry London, a pioneer in child hypnosis, guided my initial work and with whom I later published.  Returning to Australia, I  completed the four year program with the Australian Centre of Psychoanalysis, and Melbourne University’s hypnosis program with Professor Graham Burrows, during which I researched hypnosis applications for anxiety in sport. 

Concurrently with clinical practice here and in the USA, I consulted to institutions on project and strategic turnaround. My approach is psychodynamic which I have described in numerous conference papers and workshops and is a focus of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations (ISPSO) for which I am a board member.  Please contact me for details of my consulting and ISPSO.