Michaela Levas, PACFA

Michaela Levas is a psychotherapist who focuses on thoughts and everyday habits as a way to shift how people feel. She uses a trauma-informed lens and aims to help people make small, steady changes that reduce stress and improve daily functioning. Michaela is registered with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).

She draws on psychotherapy, clinical hypnosis, ego state approaches and narrative work to help people notice patterns that no longer serve them. Sessions often focus on understanding those patterns, naming inner parts, and finding kinder ways to respond when old habits arise. The language used in sessions is plain and practical so people can apply ideas between meetings.

Michaela often supports people coping with anxiety, stress and major life changes. She also helps with relationship concerns, self-esteem and living with ADHD. Other areas she works with include attachment and family-of-origin issues, codependency, impulsivity and loneliness. The emphasis is on what can be changed now, rather than on labels.

Her style is grounded and intuitive, aiming to move insight into action. She encourages people to try small experiments between sessions and notice what changes. Over time this practical approach helps build clearer thinking and steadier habits.

With four years of clinical experience, Michaela offers a calm, direct way of working. People looking for straightforward help with everyday thoughts and habits will find sessions focus on real-life change and clearer choices.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Many of the methods mentioned in her biography focus on understanding internal parts and the stories people tell about themselves. Narrative approaches help people sit with their life story and rewrite parts that keep causing distress, which can be useful for relationship issues, guilt and life purpose questions. Ego state work notices the separate parts inside a person - for example an anxious part and a protective part - and helps those parts learn to talk and cooperate. Clinical hypnosis can be used to calm the body and practise new responses to stress or habits in a focused way.

Choosing the right combination of methods is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the person to find approaches that match their goals, needs and comfort. That conversation can include trying an idea for a few sessions and checking whether it feels useful, then adjusting as required.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. In general, remote sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, avoid travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Online work still focuses on practical steps you can try between meetings and on building clearer thinking and steadier daily habits.