In-Person in Porcupine Ridge, VIC 3461
Online in Australia
My work is grounded in the belief that emotional difficulties make sense in the context of our relationships, histories, bodies, and the wider living world. Therapy is not simply about reducing symptoms—it is about understanding the patterns that have shaped you and creating the conditions for something different.
Sessions are thoughtful, collaborative, and gently exploratory. I'll share my observations, invite your reflections, and encourage honesty about how you're experiencing both the therapy and our relationship. Alongside words, we'll also pay attention to the body—its sensations, impulses, tensions, and rhythms—as another way of understanding your experience. When it feels appropriate, we may also draw on the natural world, either through working outdoors or allowing nature to offer perspective, grounding, and a deeper sense of belonging within the wider web of life.
Spiral Psychotherapy is for people who long to understand themselves more deeply rather than simply manage symptoms. My hope is that therapy offers not only insight, but a different experience of being with yourself, others, and the living world—one that creates greater freedom, connection, and aliveness.
Client Focus
Session Format: Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult, Senior, Young Adult
Demographic Expertise: LGBTQ+, Women clients.
Treatment Approach
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) Helps people accept difficult thoughts and feelings instead of fighting them, while committing to actions that reflect their values. It blends mindfulness with practical behavior strategies.
- Biopsychosocial Therapy Takes into account biological, psychological, and social factors in understanding mental health. It looks at the whole person, not just symptoms.
- Developmental Therapy Looks at how childhood and developmental experiences affect current challenges. It aims to repair unmet needs and foster healthy growth.
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Focuses on strengthening emotional bonds in couples or families. It helps people identify negative cycles and create more secure connections.
- Existential / Humanistic Therapy Encourages people to explore meaning, freedom, and authenticity in their lives. It focuses on personal growth and living in alignment with one’s values.
- Gestalt Therapy Encourages awareness of thoughts, feelings, and actions in the present moment. It helps people integrate different parts of themselves for wholeness.
- Integrative Therapy Combines techniques from multiple approaches into a customized plan. It adapts to each client’s unique situation and needs.
- Jungian Therapy Draws on Carl Jung’s ideas about archetypes, dreams, and the collective unconscious. It helps people explore deeper layers of meaning.
- Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) Emphasizes empathy, unconditional positive regard, and authenticity. It provides a safe space for self-discovery and growth.
- Psychodynamic Therapy Explores unconscious thoughts and patterns that influence current behavior. It builds insight into how the past impacts the present.
- Relational Psychotherapy Emphasizes the healing power of the therapist-client relationship. It uses trust and safety as a foundation for change.
- Somatic Therapy Helps clients notice how emotions are stored in the body. It uses breath, movement, and awareness for healing trauma and stress.
Approach Description: Rather than asking, "How do we get rid of this symptom?", I am more interested in asking, "What is this experience trying to communicate?" For me, therapy begins with understanding before fixing.
Many of the ways we struggle today once served an important purpose. Anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and patterns of disconnection often develop as creative adaptations to the circumstances we have lived through. Together, we become curious about these patterns, exploring how they were shaped and how they continue to influence your life in the present.
At the heart of my work is the therapeutic relationship. While I draw from a range of therapeutic approaches, it is our collaboration that provides the foundation for change. I see therapy as a conversation we create together—one where your thoughts, feelings, and experience of our relationship are welcomed. By approaching moments of uncertainty, misunderstanding, or connection with openness and curiosity, therapy can become a place where new ways of relating are experienced rather than simply talked about.
Alongside conversation and reflection, I also pay attention to the body. Our bodies often express experiences that words alone cannot fully capture. Sensations, impulses, tensions, emotions, dreams, and embodied responses can all offer important ways of understanding what is happening beneath the surface. Rather than treating the body as separate from the mind, I see it as another way experience speaks.
The natural world also informs my practice. For those who are interested, therapy may include working outdoors or drawing on ecotherapy practices that invite the more-than-human world into our shared experience. Nature offers more than a peaceful setting; it can provide perspective, grounding, and a gentle reminder that we belong to something larger than ourselves. Sometimes this wider context allows us to hold our struggles with greater compassion and perspective.
My thinking is grounded in developmental and attachment perspectives, informed by systems theory, and enriched by relational, embodied, and depth-oriented approaches. Rather than following a single model, I draw from these ways of understanding in response to the person sitting with me.
Meaningful change rarely follows a straight line. We often return to familiar places, but each time with greater awareness, deeper understanding, and new possibilities. Like a spiral, therapy allows change to deepen over time.
Fees & Insurance
Fees
- Average Session Fee 130
- Affordable sliding scale therapy: apply if you may be eligible.
- I aim to make my services accessible to as many people as possible. Please get in contact to discuss options if finances are a barrier for you to receive support.
- Out of Network
Education & Credentials
Tawney Bevilacqua (Spiral Psychotherapy)
- Female
- License # 33354
- Licensed in Victoria, Australia
- Practicing Since 2025
Education: Bachelor of Counselling and Integrative Psychotherapy (Ikon Institute)
Bachelor of Gender Studies/Creative Writing (Swinburne University)
Tawney Bevilacqua (Spiral Psychotherapy) Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available In-Person in Porcupine Ridge, VIC 3461
- Available Online for residents of Australia
- Online Therapy Details: Via Zoom
My practice is based in a quiet mudbrick cottage nestled in the bush near Daylesford (central Victoria). The space has been created to feel calm, private, and welcoming—a place where there is room to slow down and listen more closely to yourself.
For those who are interested, therapy can also extend beyond the consulting room. We may work outdoors, allowing the rhythms of the seasons, the landscape, and the more-than-human world to become part of the therapeutic process. Nature can offer perspective, regulation, and a sense of being held within something larger than our individual struggles.