Waves Within Psychology | Registered Psychologist Mornington Peninsula

The Approach

Emotions, like waves, are meant to move through us. When they become stuck — through anxiety, trauma, or stress — life can feel overwhelming and unclear.

My practice draws on evidence-based therapies to help you understand your inner world, cultivate resilience, and move toward healing through a deeper reconnection with your mind, body, and self.

Waves Within is for everyone — all genders, sexualities, cultures, neurotypes, and everything in between. I work with adults who are ready to bring their whole, wonderfully complicated self.

Areas of support

Whatever has brought you here — you don't have to carry it alone. Every person's experience is unique, and our sessions will always be shaped around you.

Generalised Anxiety Disorder & Depression Neurodivergent-Affirming Care Autism & ADHD LGBTIQA+ Care Trauma Men's Mental Health Women's Mental Health Borderline Personality Disorder Schizophrenia Addiction & Recovery Life Transitions Student Stress General Life Stress Forensic Presentations

Evidence-based modalities, woven around you

CBT

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Helps you understand the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours — and gently shift the patterns that aren't serving you.

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing

A powerful, research-backed therapy for trauma that helps the brain process and integrate distressing memories so they lose their grip on the present.

DBT

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

Builds practical skills in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness — especially useful when emotions feel overwhelming.

IFS

Internal Family Systems

Explores the different "parts" of you — the inner critic, the protector, the wounded self — with curiosity and compassion, rather than judgment.

Schema

Schema Therapy

Identifies deep-rooted patterns and beliefs formed in early life that shape how we relate to ourselves and others — and helps us gently rewrite them.

Methods of Delivery

In Person

Face-to-face sessions in a beautiful yoga studio, held in a calm, low sensory room on the Mornington Peninsula.

183 Point Nepean Road, Dromana VIC 3936

Telehealth

Video or phone sessions available Australia-wide — from wherever feels most comfortable for you.

Walk & Talk

Therapy doesn't have to happen in a room. Sometimes the best conversations happen side by side, by the water.

Dan, Registered Psychologist at Waves Within

About

A space where things can begin to make sense.

Hi, I'm Dan. I'm a registered psychologist and the founder of Waves Within Psychology.

My approach to therapy is active, collaborative, and grounded in helping you develop a deeper understanding of yourself. While feeling heard and supported is central to the process, therapy also involves building insight, gently exploring patterns, and working toward meaningful and lasting change.

I'm a neurodivergent and LGBTIQ+ affirming psychologist, and I see every person as a unique individual trying to find a sense of peace in a world that can feel overwhelming, confusing, or at times, not built for them.

Feeling stuck in patterns that don't quite make sense can show up in different ways — relationships that don't sustain, feeling alone even when surrounded by others, or carrying a persistent sense of not being good enough. Often, there is a deeper story underneath these experiences that hasn't yet had the space to be understood.

In our work together, you'll be listened to with care and respect, while also being supported to explore your experiences more deeply. This may include developing awareness of patterns, understanding difficult truths, and building the skills needed to move forward in a way that feels more aligned with who you are.

I take a holistic approach to therapy. Healing is not just cognitive — it involves the nervous system, the body, and the way experiences are held over time. A key part of my work is supporting you to move out of survival mode and into a place that feels more regulated, grounded, and connected.

My style is warm, calm, and relational. I aim to create a space where you can show up as you are, without judgement. A space where you can soften, feel more steady, and start to move through life in a way that feels more like your own.

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Fees

Session pricing

Investing in your mental health is one of the most meaningful things you can do for yourself. Below is a simple overview of fees.

Individual Session

50 minutes

$200

per session

Medicare Rebates Available

Reduce your out-of-pocket costs with a Mental Health Treatment Plan

A Medicare rebate may be available when you hold a valid Mental Health Treatment Plan from your GP. With a plan, you can claim back $98.50 per session through Medicare, significantly reducing your out-of-pocket cost. Speak to your GP to find out if you're eligible.

Acknowledgement of Country

Waves Within Psychology acknowledges the Bunurong / Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I practise. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

LGBTIQA+ Affirming

Neurodivergent Affirming

Safe Space

All Adults Are Welcome

Medicare Rebates

Waves Within

Areas of support

Session pricing

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