About Daphne
Daphne Vassiliou is a counsellor with eight years of professional experience practising in Australia. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, improve self-esteem and confidence, and deal with anger and motivation. Daphne aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity and compassion as they take steps towards a more fulfilling life.
Daphne adapts sessions to suit each person’s needs. She listens first, then works with clients to set practical goals.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored so people can try small, real-life changes between sessions. Her work commonly covers parenting concerns and life transitions. Daphne also helps with issues such as abandonment, attachment, body image and communication problems.
She supports people facing control issues, divorce and separation, and the emotional work of forgiveness. Other areas Daphne addresses include guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, finding life purpose, midlife adjustment and self-love. She has experience with panic attacks, social anxiety and phobia, and women’s issues.
Her approach is straightforward, calm and focused on usable strategies. Daphne holds PACFA credentialing. She will personalise the plan to match individual goals and pace.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to provide steady support while people build new ways of coping and relating to themselves and others.
Evidence-based techniques for online care
Two common evidence-based techniques Daphne uses are problem-focused strategies and skills practice. Problem-focused strategies break down worries and stressors into specific steps, helping people identify what they can change and what they can accept. Skills practice involves rehearsing breathing, grounding and communication skills to reduce panic and improve everyday coping.A second helpful approach is work on self-esteem and relational patterns. This involves identifying negative self-talk and attachment-related reactions, then replacing them with kinder, more realistic self-statements and new ways of relating. It can help with social anxiety, isolation and patterns that fuel shame or guilt.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Daphne will discuss options and try different techniques based on each person’s goals and preferences. She adapts methods over time so the work fits changing needs and the pace feels manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or short exercises. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, parenting and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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