Itay Lahav, PACFA

Itay Lahav is a psychodynamic psychotherapist with 22 years of clinical experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and sleep problems. She holds PACFA credentialing in Australia and takes a thoughtful, person-focused approach to therapy.

She pays attention to how past relationships affect current feelings and behaviour. Sessions often explore attachment patterns and how they shape trust, closeness and communication. The aim is to help people notice repeated patterns and try different ways of relating to themselves and others.

Itay blends psychodynamic listening with client-centred care and trauma-focused practices. That means she listens closely, follows what matters to the person, and brings trauma-informed ideas when needed. She also pays attention to the body-mind connection for difficulties like chronic pain and sleep disruption.

She can work in shorter, goal-focused blocks or in longer, deeper work depending on what a person needs. The therapeutic relationship is central to her approach and she focuses on safety and steady progress in sessions.

People who want to explore life meaning, attachment wounds or long-standing patterns may find her approach helpful. Practical conversation, gentle interpretation and attention to emotional experience are typical parts of sessions.

How her approaches translate to online work

Itay draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current responses. This approach helps people understand patterns of trust, closeness and separation and is useful for relationship struggles and attachment wounds.

She also uses psychodynamic therapy to pay attention to recurring themes in a person’s life. That means listening for emotional patterns, linking present difficulties to past experience, and gently helping people see alternatives to long-standing behaviour.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work and the therapist treats it as a collaboration. She discusses goals, asks about what has or hasn't helped before, and together with the person decides whether shorter focused work or longer exploration fits best.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow for a quieter check-in when travel is difficult, or let someone use voice-only meetings when video is not preferable. Therapists who use these methods adapt them to the online setting so that emotional material and safety are addressed thoughtfully.