DEIRDRE ROLFE
Clinical Counsellor | Psychotherapist | Level 4 Supervisor | Clinical Hypnotherapist

Depth-oriented, trauma-informed psychotherapy for those seeking more than symptom relief.

Working with trauma, complex trauma, narcissistic abuse recovery, dissociation, anxiety, grief, addictions, existential crisis, and the long psychological effects of adversity through evidence-based, somatic, symbolic, and deeply integrative therapy.

Online worldwide | Private practice in country Victoria, Australia

Evidence-Based. Existential. Embodied.

WELCOME TO MY SITE

With more than three decades of professional experience, I work as a Clinical Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Level 4 Supervisor, Clinical Hypnotherapist, author, and creator of original therapeutic models and resources. I am the author of You Are as Sick as Your Secrets: Trauma Understands Trauma, Dark Contracts, and The TR6 Trauma Model, and the creator of TraumaCode: Symbols, Metaphors and Rituals, a 96-card and booklet system for personal development and therapeutic insight.

Throughout my career I have worked in private practice and held senior clinical roles, including Head Therapist in dual-diagnosis retreat settings. This breadth of experience has given me a deep and practical understanding of trauma, addiction, anxiety, relational injury, and the complex ways people learn to survive what has happened to them.

If you have arrived here carrying the layered weight of trauma, grief, anxiety, abuse, loss, addiction, or years of unprocessed life experience, you are in the right place.

This is depth work.

Areas of Clinical Focus

I work with the complexities of trauma, narcissistic abuse recovery, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, dissociation, stress, anxiety, childhood abuse, PTSD, complex trauma,attachments, couple's therapy,  grief and loss, resilience, existential growth, addictions, weight-related struggles, fear of flying, confidence, smoking cessation, and the accumulated burden of life’s ingested pain.

I treat the whole person as a unique psychological system with multiple parts, contradictions, defences, resistance, adaptative and maladaptive behaviours, resilience and strengths. I work not only with what is conscious and visible, but with what sits underneath: the unconscious pattern, the embodied wound, the defended story, the symbolic language, and the parts of the self that hide in shame, conditioned responses, triggers, projections, patterns, habits, self esteem, fear, silence,masking or other survival or protective modes..

My work integrates evidence-based psychological treatments with a broader existential, Jungian, somatic, and symbolic approach. I draw from EMDR, CBT, ACT, DBT, NLP, clinical hypnosis, parts therapy, ego state work, narrative therapy, psychodrama, psycholinguistic inquiry, somatic body work, breathwork, mindfulness, modern Buddhist principles, symbolism, rituals, metaphor, shadow work, philosophy, and nature-based reflection. I also integrate my own original clinical framework, including the TR6 Trauma Model and Assessment.

These modalities are woven together carefully according to the person, the problem, the readiness, and the depth of work required.

As a therapist, I focus on the deeper architecture of suffering and healing. I want to understand how a person has come to be organised as they are, what has been defended against, what keeps repeating, what the body is carrying, what the psyche is trying to express, and what needs to be made conscious in order for change to become real.

This means therapy with me is humanistic, highly individualized, tool based and engaged, thoughtful, strategic, with a goal of profound change. It may involve unpacking thematic adaptations or outcomes of trauma, working through resistance, understanding repeated patterns, bringing language to what has never fully been named, reworking the internal story, and helping a person move from fragmentation toward integration.

Working Beneath the Surface

I believe healing often requires us to go beyond conventional language and beyond the limits of purely linear understanding. Sometimes the unconscious speaks through image, body, symbol, ritual, dream, metaphor, contradiction, and felt sense. Sometimes the deepest truth of a person’s suffering is not sitting on the surface waiting to be explained. It must be approached with care, depth, courage, and skill.

I offer a therapeutic process that is evidence based, psychologically rigorous, and deeply human. My aim is to help people not simply cope, but become more conscious, more integrated, more resilient, and more able to live from a stronger and more authentic centre.

Courses and personal delelopment training

Programs include

• The CALM Framework™ Resilience Course
• The Act of Unforgiving Workshop
• TR6 Trauma Model™ Assessment and Workshop
• Trauma Bond Recovery Sessions
• Archetype Assessment Workshops Grounded in Jungian Depth Psychology
• The Living Senses™ – A Course in Presence, Perception, and the Art of Fully Experiencing Life

Further information about these programs can be found throughout the website.

Professional Collaboration and Speaking

In addition to psychotherapy, supervision, and educational programs, I welcome opportunities for professional collaboration.

This may include participation in podcasts, guest speaking, retreats, workshops, seminars, professional forums, or collaborative events focused on trauma, psychological resilience, depth psychology, and the integration of therapeutic insight into real life.

Over the course of my career I have developed original clinical frameworks and perspectives that often translate well into educational discussions, public conversations, and interdisciplinary settings.

Begin the Conversation

If you are seeking a therapist, supervisor, guide for serious inner work, or are interested in professional collaboration, I invite you to reach out.

Deirdre Rolfe
Counsellor On Call

Phone: 0412 106 496

International tel:+61412106496