Therapy and Counselling
Robyn Wright provides psychological support for adolescents (16+), adults, and parents seeking guidance for their children.
Therapy is tailored to each person’s unique needs and may support individuals experiencing:
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Anxiety and panic
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Depression and mood difficulties
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Trauma and stress-related difficulties, including experiences of domestic or family violence and workplace injury
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Emotional regulation challenges
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Workplace stress or bullying
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Parenting concerns
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Support for parents during pregnancy and early parenting, including anxiety, low mood, overwhelm, identity changes, and strengthening the parent–infant bond
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Relationship and interpersonal difficulties
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Family breakdown/conflict
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Grief and loss
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Adjustment to life transitions
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Perfectionism and self-criticism
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Low self-esteem, confidence and identity development
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Burnout and ongoing stress
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Sleep difficulties
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Attention difficulties
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School refusal
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Coping with illness or disability
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Friendship or bullying difficulties
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Stress management
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Building resilience and emotional well-being
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Performance confidence across school, work, or sport
Robyn’s approach is trauma-informed and attachment-informed, recognising the impact of early relationships and life experiences on emotional wellbeing.
Therapy is collaborative and paced according to your needs, helping you develop greater insight, practical coping strategies, and meaningful change.
First Responder Psychological Support
Robyn provides evidence-based psychological support for first responders, including police, paramedics, firefighters, and emergency services personnel. This includes support for trauma, critical incidents, and the cumulative impact of operational stress.
Robyn understands the unique demands of this work and offer a respectful, practical, and trauma-informed approach - supporting recovery from trauma, as well as anxiety, burnout, and work-related psychological injury.
Support is available under Medicare (Mental Health Treatment Plans) and Workers Compensation (WorkCover), with in-person and Telehealth appointments available.
First responders are regularly exposed to high-pressure, distressing, and potentially life-threatening situations. Over time, this can affect emotional wellbeing and may lead to intrusive memories, heightened alertness, sleep difficulties, anxiety, low mood, difficulty switching off, and strain in relationships.
Robyn understands the unique demands, culture, and pressures of emergency service work. Therapy is provided in a respectful, practical, and trauma-informed way, with a focus on creating a safe and supportive space to work at a pace that feels right for you.
Sport and Performance Psychology
Alongside Robyn’s clinical practice, she provides sport and performance psychology support.
This work may assist individuals experiencing:
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Performance pressure and confidence difficulties
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Strengthening focus and present-moment awareness
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Learning to cope with disappointment
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Learning to manage unhelpful thoughts that can impact performance
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Motivation challenges
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Injury recovery
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Burnout, stress and anxiety
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Identity changes within sport and career transitions
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Developing interpersonal effectiveness skills
The aim is to support both psychological well-being and performance resilience.
Therapeutic Approaches
Robyn’s practice integrates a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches. These approaches are selected collaboratively and guided by each person’s needs, goals, and preferences.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT):
CBT focuses on understanding the relationship between thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. It helps individuals identify and modify unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours to support healthier emotional responses and effective coping strategies.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT):
DBT builds on CBT principles and focuses on emotion regulation, mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness and walking the middle path skills. It can help individuals manage intense emotions and respond more effectively to challenging situations.
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT):
CFT helps individuals develop greater self-compassion and reduce self-criticism, shame, and anxiety. It integrates psychological and neuroscience principles to support emotional regulation and a more balanced relationship with oneself.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy:
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that helps people process and recover from distressing or traumatic experiences. EMDR may assist with trauma, anxiety, depression, panic, distressing memories, and emotional overwhelm by helping the brain reprocess experiences that may feel “stuck.” Therapy is delivered in a supportive and paced way, with a strong focus on emotional safety throughout treatment.
Schema Therapy:
Schema Therapy is an integrative therapy approach that helps individuals understand how early life experiences can shape emotional patterns, beliefs, relationships, and ways of coping. Robyn incorporates Schema Therapy techniques to support clients in understanding longstanding patterns, coping styles, and unmet emotional needs.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT):
ACT focuses on building psychological flexibility. It helps individuals develop greater openness toward difficult thoughts and emotions while taking meaningful action aligned with personal values.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy:
A goal-focused approach that helps individuals identify strengths, clarify their preferred future, and take practical steps toward meaningful change.
Attachment-Informed Approaches/Circle of Security:
Attachment-informed approaches help parents and caregivers understand how early relationships shape emotional development and relationship patterns. The Circle of Security model supports parents in recognising and responding to their child’s emotional needs, strengthening parent–child connection, and fostering healthy early relationships from infancy onwards. Robyn has a particular interest in supporting parents to strengthen and nurture parent–child relationships across all stages of development, from infancy through to adulthood.
Assessments
Cognitive, ADHD, and autism assessments may be offered on a case-by-case basis, depending on individual needs and suitability.
Please contact Robyn to discuss your concerns and whether an assessment may be appropriate. Where recommended, comprehensive assessments involve a detailed clinical evaluation and written report, and are charged separately from therapy sessions.
Location
In-person appointments are available at:
Level 1, Suite 10/130 Argyle Street, Camden NSW 2570
Telehealth appointments are also available Australia-wide.