About Mim
Mim Gavel is a Swedish-born psychologist and psychotherapist practising in Australia. She brings nine years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. Mim uses a collaborative style that treats the client as the expert on their life while offering practical support.
She helps people work through trauma and abuse, and she supports those rebuilding confidence and motivation. Her work also addresses issues connected to abandonment, attachment and family of origin concerns.
Background and approach
Mim has experience with adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues and caregiving stress. People also consult her for communication and commitment problems, control and dependent personality patterns, and the emotional strain of cancer or chronic health problems. She brings steady, clear guidance when co-morbidity or overlapping concerns complicate a situation.
Sessions aim to identify manageable steps rather than overwhelming change. Mim speaks English and Swedish and adapts her pace to each person’s needs. Her approach is practical and respectful, focused on small shifts that build over time.
The first session is used to understand priorities and agree on what to work on together. She believes taking the first step takes courage and offers calm support through the process. Mim helps people set goals, try different ways of coping and notice progress along the way.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Two common evidence-based techniques Mim uses are trauma-informed talking therapies and structured problem-solving. Trauma-informed talking therapies focus on stabilising distress, making sense of difficult experiences and building coping strategies for anxiety and trauma. Structured problem-solving helps break down stressful situations into manageable steps and practical actions to reduce worry and overwhelm.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Mim will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs and preferences. She starts with a conversation about what matters most and adapts plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people keep visual contact and read non-verbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement or times when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to access consistent support while balancing work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Swedish
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