Tunteeya Yamaoka, AHPRA

Tunteeya Yamaoka is an AHPRA-registered counsellor with ten years of clinical and private practice experience. She speaks English and Japanese and brings a direct, kind approach to sessions. She encourages honest conversation and helps people notice both difficult feelings and small moments of light.

Tunteeya aims to provide a non-judgemental space where people can express whatever they are feeling. She is straightforward and may point out things that are hard to hear, always from a place of care. Her goal is to help people find clearer direction and greater purpose in daily life.

Her background includes work in hospitals, universities, corporate settings and private practice. She has supported people with anxiety, perfectionism, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. She also brings experience with relationship concerns, self-esteem, coping with life changes and coaching.

Tunteeya’s multicultural upbringing and mixed Japanese-Ghanaian-Australian identity shape how she practises. She combines ideas from Eastern and Western perspectives and pays attention to cultural context during sessions. She also enjoys creative activities such as drawing and painting, and keeps active through running and gym workouts.

Sessions focus on practical changes in thoughts and everyday habits alongside emotional work. People who prefer clear feedback and collaborative goal-setting often find her approach useful. To begin, readers can follow the site’s Start Therapy process to match and schedule a session.

Approaches that guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice tough thoughts without letting them control behaviour, then choose actions that line up with their values. It can help when anxiety or perfectionism gets in the way of everyday life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current ways of relating and feeling safe; it can be useful for attachment issues, abandonment concerns and relationship distress. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, non-judgemental space where the person leads the pace and the therapist follows, which helps when someone needs time to discover what matters to them.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods based on the client’s needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and adjustments can be made as therapy progresses.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or remove travel time. It can also let people choose interactions that suit their energy on the day, such as focusing on skills practice or conversational reflection.