About Ursula
Ursula Adams is an AASW social worker with 13 years' experience supporting people facing anxiety, stress and relationship strain. She aims to make first contact simple and approachable, helping people feel heard and understood from the first session. Ursula meets people where they are and works alongside them to set clear, manageable goals.
She creates a warm, open space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through without judgment. Conversations focus on identifying strengths and practical steps rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Ursula draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding. Attachment-based ideas shape her work with relationship and intimacy concerns. That helps people understand connection patterns and practise new ways of relating.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy informs sessions that prioritise feelings and repairing closeness when trust has been damaged. Ursula also brings experience working with grief, trauma and the LGBTQI community. She combines solution-focused and narrative approaches at times to help people reframe difficult stories and build on what is already working.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to the person's readiness. Practical skills, short-term strategies and longer-term reflection all have a place in her work. Ursula supports people through life transitions, career stress, sleep difficulties and compassion fatigue with straightforward tools and steady encouragement.
Online approaches that focus on feeling and doing
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match what matters to you. It can help with anxiety, worry and motivation. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) works by spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviours to reduce distress and improve sleep and mood. It is often practical and skill-based. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection styles affect current relationships and helps people try new ways of relating when intimacy or trust is difficult.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ursula will talk with you about your goals and preferences and together you can decide which ideas to try first. Therapy can include short-term skills training or deeper emotional work, and the plan can change as you progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or messaging to fit different lives. Video calls make it possible to work face to face from anywhere in Australia. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can suit a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging let people reflect between sessions and fit support around work or family commitments. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to maintain alongside daily responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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