Social Anxiety therapists in Ararat, VIC
Browse Social Anxiety therapists in Ararat, Victoria, Australia. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
Rob McClintock Counselling
Licensed Mental Health Counsellor, Dip Counselling ACA, Clinical Hypnotherapist ASCH,
Social anxiety can turn everyday interactions into overwhelming ordeals, making you feel like everyone is watching, judging, or waiting for you to fail. The fear of embarrassment, rejection, or saying the wrong thing can keep you isolated, missing out on relationships, career opportunities, and life experiences. Having experienced acute anxiety myself, I understand how paralyzing these fears can be and how they create a prison of avoidance and self-consciousness. My approach to social anxiety goes beyond exposure therapy or coping strategies to address the subconscious beliefs and past experiences that fuel your fear of social judgment. Using Subconscious Dynamics™, we identify and transform the deep-seated programming that interprets social situations as threats, allowing you to rewire your nervous system's automatic responses. This work helps you develop genuine confidence in social settings, moving from survival mode to authentic connection with others.
6 Years Experience
Online in Ararat, VIC
Mitchell Kovacs
Counsellor/Therapist, Level 2 Counsellor (ACA)
Social anxiety is an important topic to discuss because it’s common, often invisible, highly limiting, and very treatable—yet many people suffer in silence.
5 Years Experience
Online in Ararat, VIC (Online Only)
Marianna Trezza -The Growing mindset
Counsellor/Therapist, MA (Hons), Adv Dip. Counsel. & Psychoth.,Dip. Hypnoth., X-Cultural Adaptation Coun. Reg. BACP 572613
For many women living abroad, social anxiety is not simply about shyness or lack of confidence.
Sometimes it develops slowly after years of constantly adapting between languages, cultures, expectations and different versions of oneself.
Many Italian women living abroad become highly skilled at monitoring themselves socially:
how they sound,
how they are perceived,
whether they are “too much”,
too emotional,
too foreign,
too different.
Over time, this constant self-monitoring can leave the nervous system in a subtle but chronic state of alertness.
Even simple social situations may begin to feel emotionally exhausting.
Not necessarily because a woman lacks social skills, but because some part of her body has learned that belonging often depends on careful adaptation.
I work especially with women who feel fragmented between cultures and identities, and who long to feel more relaxed, authentic and emotionally safe in relationships and social spaces.
My approach is warm, reflective and nervous-system-informed, integrating psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, embodiment, nature-based practices and emotional regulation work to help women reconnect with a deeper sense of ease, self-trust and belonging.
23 Years Experience
Online in Ararat, VIC
Lailla Sena - Somatic Practitioner
Life Coach, Psychosomatic Practitioner | Breathwork Facilitator
You're in the room, and part of you never quite arrives. You're watching your own face, monitoring your voice, tracking whether you said too much or not enough. Then you leave and replay the whole thing for hours. It's exhausting in a way that's hard to explain to people who don't experience it, because from the outside you seem fine.
What's happening is a nervous system in constant surveillance, scanning for a threat it learned to expect. Together we work with that scanning directly: slowing your breath, grounding your attention back into your own body, building the felt experience of being safe while being seen. Over time you can be in the room and actually be in it. If this is you, I can support you in your process. Schedule a free chat with me today to get started.
8 Years Experience
Online in Ararat, VIC
Chris Chicoteau
Counsellor/Therapist, Master of Counselling, IFS Level 2
Understand the role social anxiety is playing in your life and develop ways to address it.
16 Years Experience
Online in Ararat, VIC
Social Anxiety therapists in Ararat, VIC Statistics
Social Anxiety therapists in Ararat, VIC average 13 years of experience and charge around $184 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (67%), Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (63%), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (53%).
Average years in practice
13 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$184
Accept insurance
45%
Offer sliding scale
49%
Gender ID
| 56% |
Female |
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| 39% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 75% |
In Person and Online |
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| 25% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 67% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 63% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 53% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 47% | Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) |
| 45% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 43% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 41% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
Ages Served
| 96% | Adult |
| 78% | Young Adult |
| 69% | Senior |
| 45% | Teen |
| 31% | Children |
Client Focus
| 63% | Women |
| 57% | Men |
| 51% | LGBTQ+ |
| 51% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 41% | Middle Eastern |