Itay Lahav , PACFA

Itay Lahav is a senior clinical practitioner and psychodynamic psychotherapist with advanced clinical training and a PACFA credential (Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia). She brings 22 years of professional experience in Australia and works across a broad range of mental health concerns, including presentations linked to personality disorder.

Her practice includes work with stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, and sleep disturbances, and she maintains a particular focus on trauma, attachment issues, and personal-integrative approaches that address the body-mind connection. She supports individuals who wish to explore personal development and meaning, helping them navigate patterns, symptoms, and life transitions with thoughtful clinical care.

Itay is comfortable offering both short-term, focused interventions and longer-term, in-depth therapy, adapting the pace and structure to each person’s needs. She emphasizes the quality and safety of the therapeutic relationship as central to effective work and aims to create a setting where exploration of difficult material can proceed at a considered and clinically informed pace.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Itay Lahav draws on psychodynamic, trauma-focused, and attachment-based work to guide online therapy. Psychodynamic therapy explores long-standing patterns, past experiences, and unconscious dynamics to help illuminate why certain feelings and reactions recur; this approach can be helpful for people wrestling with relationship patterns, identity questions, or persistent emotional difficulties. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on understanding and processing the effects of traumatic events in ways that reduce distress and support recovery, and it can be applied when past harm affects current functioning. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relational experiences shape expectations and behavior in close relationships, offering ways to build more secure interpersonal connections and to address abandonment or attachment-related concerns.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is undertaken collaboratively. She will work with each person to shape a plan that fits their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting methods over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into daily life, offering flexibility around scheduling and location. These options allow continuity of care when in-person meetings are difficult and help connect people with licensed professionals who can provide consistent therapeutic support.