Dr Robert Dawborn – A Melbourne Psychotherapist
Integrating Western Psychotherapy with Eastern and Western traditions of meditation and spirituality
Dr Robert Dawborn – A Melbourne Psychotherapist
Integrating Western Psychotherapy with Eastern and Western traditions of meditation and spirituality
Refer yourself for face-to-face or online psychotherapy
Dr Robert Dawborn sees people including couples across Melbourne with depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, personality disorders, PTSD and complex PTSD, especially people motivated for self-inquiry and personal understanding.
Refer yourself or be referred by your GP or Psychiatrist.
Appointments Tailored To Meet Your Needs
- Six to twelve psychotherapy appointments are appropriate for mild conditions.
- Longer-term conditions with entrenched patterns of feeling, thinking and behaviour, with distress affecting everyday life will need 6 to 12 months or longer of weekly psychotherapy.
- Concessional patients reach the extended Medicare safety net (EMSN) in 6 consultations. Non-concessional patients reach the extended Medicare safety net (EMSN) in 12 consultations per calendar year.
Unlimited Consultations Under Medicare
Patients in longer-term psychotherapy can have regular twice-weekly consultations under Medicare. This is because Dr Dawborn is a GP. Patients can always begin psychotherapy with a Mental Health Care Plan then continue with regular GP consultations when this is completed. All personal therapy appointments are for 50 minutes or 70 minutes. Couple sessions are for 60 minutes.
How We Make a Difference
Dr Dawborn is a GP
There is no need to be referred as Dr Robert Dawborn is himself a General Practitioner. However you can also be referred by your own GP or Psychiatrist.
Unlimited Sessions
You can arrange as many sessions as you like.
Knowledgeable
Dr Dawborn is highly trained in Medicine and Psychiatry as well as Psychotherapy.
Vast Experience
Dr Robert Dawborn has 30 years experience in psychological medicine and psychotherapy including teaching advanced psychotherapy to psychiatrists.
Specialists
Dr Robert Dawborn specialises in relationship- and trauma-focussed psychotherapy of complex psychological conditions working with people interested in meditative self-inquiry and understanding.
Psychotherapy Counselling Issues and Conditions
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Assertiveness
- Bereavement & Grief
- Bipolar Disorder
- Complex Post Traumatic Stress
- Change
- Conflict
- Crisis
- Depression
- Dissociative Disorders
- Emotional Distress
- Gender Identity Issues
- Insomnia
- Interpersonal Problems
- Life Transitions
- Personal Development
- Marriage Breakdown
- Marital Issues
- Men’s Issues
- Obsessions
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Panic Attacks
- Parenting
- Personality Disorders
- Phobias
- Post Natal Depression
- Post Traumatic Stress
- Relationships
- Self-Esteem
- Separation
- Sexual Abuse and Trauma
- Sleep Disorders
- Work Related Issues
We utilise the following psychotherapeutic approaches:
- Brief Psychodynamic therapy
- Couple Therapy
- Dreamwork
- Family Therapy
- Meditation
- Mindfulness
- Psychotherapy
- Process-Oriented Psychotherapy
- Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychological Medicine
- Relationship Therapy
- Solution Focussed Therapy
- Systems Therapy
- Trauma Counselling
- Eastern and Western meditative and spiritual traditions
