About Stuart
Stuart Fisher is an experienced counsellor who helps people manage anxiety, stress and the challenges that come with mood and addictive problems. He speaks plainly, listens carefully and aims to make the first steps less daunting for anyone seeking support. Stuart uses a respectful and compassionate style to tailor conversations to each person's needs.
With 29 years of experience in Australia, Stuart has worked across a wide range of presenting concerns.
Background and approach
His background includes supporting people with depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, and difficulties linked to attachment and relationship disruptions. He also has experience addressing addictions and complex co-morbidity. Stuart draws on evidence-informed approaches to guide sessions.
He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and take valued actions. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills are used to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Attachment-based ideas inform work around relationship patterns and emotional bonds.
In sessions Stuart focuses on practical steps, clear goals and steady progress. He adapts pace and methods so the work fits each person's life and preferences. Conversations may include skill-building, mindfulness practices and reflecting on past patterns that affect current choices.
Stuart uses a collaborative approach. He helps people set realistic aims and reviews progress along the way. For someone feeling overwhelmed by anxiety or struggling with mood or addictive behaviours, he aims to provide calm, structured support while people regain control and move towards their goals.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and encourages action that matches personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and feeling stuck. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) focuses on building emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal skills so people can cope better in intense moments. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people change repeating cycles in close relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Stuart will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. He uses a collaborative, flexible process and checks in about what is helping and what needs to change so the plan stays useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give different ways to engage. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins and text messaging can work for ongoing notes or brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life or other commitments and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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