Psychotherapy & Hypnosis

James Walker

I work with adults, adolescents, children, couples and families to address psychological distress, behavioural problems, and mental health conditions. My experience and evidence-based approaches provide client understanding of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, and develop coping strategies with positive self-concept and positive change.

Sessions in my office or through zoom, apply cognitive-behaviour, interpersonal, and psychodynamic approaches and hypnosis to comfortably and confidentially meet client's needs to explore and resolve concerns. The work effectively treats conditions like depression, anxiety, trauma, habits and compulsions, relationship issues, low self-esteem, sleep difficulties, life changes and many 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

  • Compled 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.