Emily Fishman

Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy Candidate

Emily is currently completing her Master of Counselling and is beginning work at Solana Psychology as part of the placement program. Emily has worked in the health care sector for the past 14 years, predominantly as an Osteopath. It didn’t take Emily long to experience the connections between people’s bodies, hearts and minds in the treatment room. As a way to deepen her understanding of this connection and further her capacity to help her patients, Emily undertook a two year course of study in Relational Gestalt Therapy in 2013 and began seeing counselling clients in 2015.

Emily’s therapeutic work is client centred, draws on various modalities and is shaped by the unique needs and desires of the individual she is sitting with. Modalities that influence Emily’s work include: Relational Gestalt therapy, Interpersonal Process Approach, Internal Family Systems, Somatic Internal Family Systems and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

Emily acknowledges the immense possibilities that a strong relationship between therapist and client affords. In her work, Emily emphasises developing a safe space and therapeutic alliance for the client to explore their inner worlds and lived experience. It is through this exploration that Emily and her client can identify, together, the core concerns and begin to enable genuine change.