Understanding yourself.
Changing patterns.
Moving forward.
Sometimes the difficulties we experience today are connected to emotional patterns we have carried for much longer. Therapy provides a dedicated space to understand these cycles, explore root causes, and build lasting psychological resilience.
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Are these recurring patterns holding you back?
In Schema Therapy, longstanding unhelpful patterns are called Lifetraps. They develop in childhood or adolescence and continue repeating into adult relationships, career decisions, and emotional habits.
Do you often get angry or frustrated with others?
Or feel that you constantly have to live by exhausting expectations?
When our early needs for acceptance were conditional, we often learn to overcompensate with anger or perfectionism, leaving us isolated and resentful.
Do you find yourself drawn to people who are selfish or cold?
Consistently putting the needs of others above your own?
Repeating familiar patterns of emotional neglect in adult relationships, feeling invisible despite giving everything you have to partners and friends.
Do you feel inadequate or like an imposter despite success?
Thinking no matter what you achieve, you still feel unfilled or undeserving?
The persistent feeling that you will be 'found out'. Common among high-achieving corporate executives and dedicated professionals.
Do you often feel anxious that something terrible is going to happen?
Starting to panic when someone you love pulls away or threatens to leave?
Hypervigilance in life and intimacy, constantly anticipating catastrophe, rejection, or sudden emotional loss.
Recognise yourself in any of these questions?
You don't have to stay trapped in familiar cycles. Discuss your situation directly with Franco.
Specialised Psychological Support
Whether seeking personal therapy, relationship repair, family mediation, or trauma processing, each service is tailored to your unique history and goals.
Schema Therapy
Go beyond symptom relief to uncover early maladaptive schemas (lifetraps) such as abandonment, defectiveness, and unrelenting standards. Replace unhelpful coping modes with the Healthy Adult.
- Overcoming entrenched negative patterns
- International ISST accredited treatment
- Deep experiential emotional healing
Relationship & Couples
Utilising the research-validated Gottman Method to dismantle recurring conflict, heal emotional betrayal or disconnection, and build authentic intimacy, affection, and shared life goals.
- De-escalating destructive arguments
- Addressing intimacy & communication gridlock
- Practical exercises for enduring partnership
Family Therapy
Support for families navigating communication breakdown, parent-child tension, separation, blended family transitions, and intergenerational patterns to foster a calmer, understanding household.
- Resolving intergenerational tension
- Blended family & life stage transitions
- Establishing healthy family boundaries
EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) helps desensitise distressing traumatic memories and childhood adverse experiences that trigger hyperarousal, panic, or avoidance.
- Evidence-based PTSD & trauma recovery
- Processing painful developmental events
- Rapid reduction in emotional reactivity
Career & Executive Stress
With over 20 years in executive and corporate roles, Franco deeply understands the psychological toll of high-stakes leadership, corporate conflict, perfectionism, and severe career burnout.
- Navigating imposter syndrome & high pressure
- Resolving workplace interpersonal friction
- Realigning career purpose with values
Unhealthy Behaviours
Support for professionals using alcohol, emotional eating, gambling, or compulsive digital habits to cope with underlying emotional voids, chronic stress, or shame.
- Understanding the emotional coping function
- Non-judgmental, confidential consultation
- Sustainable behavioural autonomy
Answering Your Essential Questions Before You Book
We believe in complete transparency. Following the "They Ask, You Answer" framework by Marcus Sheridan, here is clear, honest information about pricing, fit, and therapy expectations.
Standard Session: $260 / 50 Minutes
With an eligible GP Mental Health Treatment Plan, the Medicare rebate is $149.05 per session, leaving an out-of-pocket cost of $110.95. Couples ($270) and family ($275) sessions are private with no Medicare rebate. Private health fund rebates are also supported.
A Calming, Private Consulting Environment in Elsternwick
The therapeutic setting matters. Franco's rooms at 386 Glen Huntly Road are thoughtfully designed to provide complete confidentiality, acoustic quiet, and a warm, unhurried space where meaningful psychological reflection can happen.
Spacious, quiet consulting room with comfortable armchairs, soft lighting, and a calm atmosphere.
Frequently Asked Questions
Straightforward answers to help you feel informed and prepared for therapy.
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Take the First Step Towards Lasting Change
Whether you are experiencing anxiety, feeling trapped in relationship conflict, or ready to dismantle lifelong lifetraps, you are supported every step of the way.
Practice Hours: Wednesday – Friday, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm • 386 Glen Huntly Rd, Elsternwick 3185