About therapy

DR DEB ZAKS

I am passionate about offering a safe environment for people to explore their lives freely and gain support. I care about creating connections with others based on compassion, understanding, and a sense of shared humanity. I seek to meet each individual with openness and curiosity, honouring and uncovering what is meaningful and important to each person and moving towards it. I welcome your honest feedback in our work together towards a safe and truly helpful therapeutic relationship.

Therapy can help in a great variety of ways, such as to help people:

  • Regulate the nervous system

  • Find relief from symptoms

  • Develop new tools to cope with life’s hardships

  • Be guided through experiential practices towards healing from trauma

  • Become more embodied

  • Gain new perspectives on areas of ‘stuckness’

  • Learn to comfort oneself in pain and distress

  • Learn to observe rather than over-identify with the mind’s thoughts

  • Tune in to their own inner strengths, resources, wisdom, guidance, and kindness

  • Enhance a sense of empowerment by moving towards values-based goals.

  • Be present in the moment

  • Cultivate greater self-awareness and understanding of their ‘self system’

  • Nurture fulfilling relations with self and others

  • Observe the different aspects or ‘parts’ of themselves with gratitude and non-judgement

  • Experience greater life-force and open-heartedness