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An Integrated Psychology Practice - connecting all parts of you
Treat Yourself Well Sydney Psychology Practice offers integrated, relational therapy grounded in identity awareness and contextual understanding.
We work collaboratively with individuals and families, meeting each person exactly where they are — with respect, curiosity, and genuine care.
Our vision is to empower people across the lifespan to cultivate self-compassion, resilience, and meaningful connection through inclusive, affirming, and evidence-based psychological care.
What sets us apart is not simply what we treat — but how we seek to understand, recognise, and support you.
We understand that:
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Being “the smart one” can become a form of camouflage.
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Sensitivity is often mistaken for fragility.
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Masking can look like coping.
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Survival strategies are frequently misunderstood as pathology.
We envision a world where every person feels worthy of care, seen in their individuality, and supported on their journey toward mental wellness — so they can navigate life with confidence and self-trust.
Our work extends beyond theory. It has been shaped by decades of listening to people who have felt labelled, criticised, misunderstood, or unseen — and recognising the strengths embedded within their struggles.
Our integrated, compassionate approach means therapy is genuinely tailored. We support a wide range of psychological presentations, including anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. Our particular areas of focus include Eating Disorders (including ARFID), neurodivergence, and trauma.
We do not pathologise difference — and we don’t equate complexity with difficulty. Complexity simply means layers, and we make space for all of them.
We embrace and celebrate neurodivergence, recognising its unique strengths, perspectives, sensitivities, and challenges. Our work is deeply rooted in lived experience and guided by a trauma-informed, inclusive, intersectional, and weight-neutral lens. We proudly welcome LGBTQIA+.
Our practice brings together credentialed eating disorder clinicians, dietitian, and EMDR trained professionals - all committed to walking alonsgide you to navigate life with confidence and be your true self.
Every body is welcome here.
The heart of what we do is to motivate and empower you to embrace your true self and treat yourself in the best possible way, psychologically and physically.
Eating Disorders, Body Image, ADHD/Autism, Trauma, Separation Anxiety, School Refusal, Emotional Regulation, Parenting Support, Relationships, Anxiety, Depression, Loneliness, Grief & Loss, Men's Health, Navigating Menopause
- we are here to help.
Eating Disorders Across The Lifespan
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
23 February - 1 March 2026
Eating Disorders Across The Lifespan Our E-Book
Practical Tips & Getting The Right Help
This free eBook explores how eating disorders can emerge and evolve across different stages of life, offering practical tips alongside compassionate, evidence-informed insights. Whether you are supporting someone else or navigating your own recovery, this guide is designed to help you feel informed, supported, and less alone.
beyou. doyou.
embraceyou.
Let us help you find your way back to you.
Our Approach To An Integrated Self
Compassion Focussed
Compassion is an essential aspect of wellbeing. The overarching goal is to cultivate compassion for self and others and reduce shame and self criticism. It brings together neuroscience and psychology to help us understand what drives us to behave, feel or think in these particular ways and help us learn new strategies that generate contentment and safety.
Mindfulness Based
When we are practising mindfulness we are engaged fully in what we are doing rather than ‘getting lost’ in thoughts. We are allowing feelings and thoughts to be as they are, letting them come and go rather than trying to push them away or make them stay.
Mindfulness simply means being in the present moment with awareness, openness, and acceptance. Mindfulness contributes to an acceptance of self without judgement.
Intersectional Lens
We understand that mental health is shaped by the interplay of many different factors. Each person’s experience is influenced by the overlapping aspects of identity—such as race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, culture, and religion—which can sometimes amplify challenges or provide unique sources of strength.
By embracing an intersectional approach, psychology moves beyond one-dimensional views of identity and opens the door to more accurate, compassionate, and socially just care. We recognise that one size does not fit all, and we are committed to meeting each individual where they are, with respect for their unique story and needs.
Trauma Informed
Being trauma informed is understanding trauma and its effects on development, health, wellbeing, relationships and the world around us and putting this into practice in all our interactions.
Trauma aware practice brings together neurobiology, an understanding of attachment, and our early developmental experiences to foster physical, emotional and psychological safety. It is a strengths based framework recognising that we responded the best way we could.
Healing from trauma occurs in a relational context. The goal is to work with the mind and body to develop a sense of safety in the world around us, build trust, develop skills and create opportunities for empowerment.
InclusiveCare
We celebrate and respect the many ways people can be different, honouring the full spectrum of human experiences.
We value lived experience and support individuals of all neurotypes, holding a gentle, weight-neutral approach to care, especially in the treatment of eating disorders.
Our space is open to people from all walks of life, faiths, and cultural backgrounds.
We warmly embrace bodies of every shape and size, and we are dedicated to creating a safe, supportive, and affirming environment for all bodies, identities, and expressions.
Above all, we are a welcoming and inclusive place for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Our Approach To An Integrated Self
Compassion Focussed
Compassion is an essential aspect of wellbeing. The overarching goal is to cultivate compassion for self and others and reduce shame and self criticism. It brings together neuroscience and psychology to help us understand what drives us to behave, feel or think in these particular ways and help us learn new strategies that generate contentment and safety.
Mindfulness Based
When we are practising mindfulness we are engaged fully in what we are doing rather than ‘getting lost’ in thoughts. We are allowing feelings and thoughts to be as they are, letting them come and go rather than trying to push them away or make them stay. Mindfulness simply means being in the present moment with awareness, openness, and acceptance. Mindfulness contributes to an acceptance of self without judgement.
Trauma Informed
Being trauma informed is understanding trauma and its effects on development, health, wellbeing, relationships and the world around us and putting this into practice in all our interactions.
Trauma aware practice brings together neurobiology, an understanding of attachment, and our early developmental experiences to foster physical, emotional and psychological safety. It is a strengths based framework recognising that we responded the best way we could.
Healing from trauma occurs in a relational context. The goal is to work with the mind and body to develop a sense of safety in the world around us, build trust, develop skills and create opportunities for empowerment.
Intersectional Lens
We understand that mental health is shaped by the interplay of many different factors. Each person’s experience is influenced by the overlapping aspects of identity—such as race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, culture, and religion—which can sometimes amplify challenges or provide unique sources of strength.
By embracing an intersectional approach, psychology moves beyond one-dimensional views of identity and opens the door to more accurate, compassionate, and socially just care.
We recognise that one size does not fit all, and we are committed to meeting each individual where they are, with respect for their unique story and needs.
Inclusive
Care
We celebrate and respect the many ways people can be different, honouring the full spectrum of human experiences.
We value lived experience and support individuals of all neurotypes, holding a gentle, weight-neutral approach to care, especially in the treatment of eating disorders.
Our space is open to people from all walks of life, faiths, and cultural backgrounds.
We warmly embrace bodies of every shape and size, and we are dedicated to creating a safe, supportive, and affirming environment for all bodies, identities, and expressions.
Above all, we are a welcoming and inclusive place for the LGBTQIA+ community.
youmatter.
Every perperson's n'sperience is layered, unique an devolving. We bring together clinicians who share a common approac; valuing depth, relational understanding, and context. While each practitioner has their own style, all work from the same philosophy - to take your internal world seiously and meet you where you are. are a body, weight and neuro neutral practice.
You matter.
BAPsych; PGDipPsych; MAppPsych; ANZAED; MAAPi
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RO DBT Scholar – program 2024-2026.
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Co-founder of The Centre for RODBT and DBT, Sydney Australia as well as director at Treat Yourself Well Sydney, Australia
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Tanya has over 25 years of experience specialising in working with complex and diverse presentations, with a particular focus on personality disorders, trauma, neurodivergence, and eating disorders.
Tanya presents:
A Brief Introduction To Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT)
March 26, 2026 10 am
This 90-minute live webinar gives mental health practitioners (e.g. psychology, psychiatry, social work, mental health nursing) who are not yet familiar with RO DBT an overview of the treatment and the clinical population it is designed to treat. There will also be time for questions. The aim is for clinicians to be able to make an informed decision on whether or not RO DBT is suitable for their clients and whether they want to learn how to practice RO DBT.
Therapeutic, thoughtful space
Our beautifully appointed and private rooms help you feel super comfortable. When you arrive, you'll meet Karen who will welcome you, show you around and take care of all the admin.
We are a Neurodiversity Affirming Practice
Embracing diversity, inclusion & bodies of all shapes and sizes
