About Itay
Itay Lahav is a clinician with 22 years of experience who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression and sleep problems. She also supports people experiencing relationship difficulties and the effects of trauma and abuse. Her approach is calm and patient, and she adapts to what each person needs in the moment.
She works with attachment issues and body-mind connections, so conversations often include how relationships and physical feelings tie together.
Background and approach
Sessions can be short and focused or longer and exploratory, depending on the person’s goals. She uses a mix of psychodynamic ideas and client-centred listening to make sense of patterns that repeat in life. Trauma-focused work is part of her practice when past events are getting in the way of daily life.
That work is paced to what the person can manage and aims to increase safety and emotional regulation over time. She pays attention to how abandonment, dissociation, or personality-related struggles show up in relationships and day-to-day functioning. Itay emphasises the therapeutic relationship as the foundation of change.
She helps people explore meaning, personal development and commitment issues while also addressing practical problems like sleep and chronic pain where relevant. Her style is reflective, attentive and collaborative. She holds PACFA credentials in Australia and offers sessions in English.
People can expect a respectful, thoughtful space for working through complex concerns and building clearer ways of coping.
Approaches for anxiety and trauma in online therapy
Itay uses attachment-based work to look at how early and current relationships shape reactions to stress and anxiety. This approach helps people notice patterns in relationships and learn new ways of relating that reduce emotional reactivity.She also draws on psychodynamic therapy to bring awareness to repeated life patterns and inner conflicts. That work can help with relationship problems, commitment issues and recurring mood difficulties by naming and understanding unconscious influences.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods suit their needs, goals and preferences. Sessions can shift over time as issues change or deeper work becomes appropriate.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text work well for more frequent, flexible check-ins or for people who prefer writing to talking.
These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while still accessing appropriately qualified and registered therapists who use attachment and psychodynamic approaches.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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