A transformative journey of personal clarity, empowerment & healing from within
Transpersonal Psychotherapy & Counselling Australia is here to assist you in a deeper connection with yourself, and to all that is possible for the healing and creation of the life that is truely your own
We offer an integrative psychotherapy approach that combines transpersonal and conventional psychological therapies with established contemplative, shamanic wisdom traditions. In a compassionate, trusting space we support you to access your inner healing, releasing limiting patterns, building self-awareness and resilience, and cultivating sustained wellbeing so you may live with greater purpose, authenticity, and meaning.
Whether addressing specific challenges or seeking greater self-realisation, we honour the spiritual wisdom and transcendent dimensions of your experience.
PERTH / FREMANTLE / COCKBURN / WESTERN AUSTRALIA
What we offer: Where Science & the Sacred Meet
With over 34 years of multifaceted and diverse professional psychotherapeutic experience, we provide specialist transpersonal, and integrated conventional psychological care to assist you to experience a life that is truly your own, with meaning, purpose and self acceptance.
Most conventional psychological approaches help you get to know yourself as you have come to be, the patterns you learned, the roles you adapted into, the story that has been given to you based on your history and relationships. This work is valuable and a necessary foundation. It helps you understand where your patterns come from, build healthier ways of relating, and strengthen your sense of agency in the world. However, conventional therapy can sometimes stop at the level of managing the self you have constructed, rather than asking a deeper question: is there a "you", an authentic self underneath all the adaptations and story.
A transpersonal psychotherapy approach assists you in re-connecting to your deeper core authentic self that much more than the adapted self and story; returning to a sense of self that is inherently relational to other people, to the wider ecology and cosmos of life we belong to.
Therapy grounded in a transpersonal context does not abandon the psychological work of understanding your history and patterns but it holds that work inside a much bigger container of connectedness and belonging. The transpersonal approach recognises that some feelings of distress, disconnection, or emptiness can sometimes reflect more than personal history alone, they can be a kind of homesickness for our place within a larger, living whole: ecological, cosmological, and spiritual. In this sense transpersonal therapy is not only about becoming more truly you, it is about remembering that "you" were always already part of something vast, alive, intelligent and continuous, your God/Goddess-Conscious Universal Energy-Quantum Field-Your Internal Eternal Presence and Self.
Whether you're navigating a life transition, working through longstanding patterns, or sensing there is something more beneath the surface of your everyday identity we offer a space where you can find your way home to your truth, your life, your core self. Together, we can explore not just who you have learned to be, but who you authentically are, and the meaning and purpose for your existence.
“Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”
William James
This model of self-healing and sacred empowerment is facilitated by Christina Manfredi
Christina originally trained in conventional psychology and clinical mental health social work at the University of Western Australia and went on to train in many other therapeutic modalities. She understands and respects that healing has many pathways. Informed through her own professional training, continued research, and lived experience, she offers a service where modern psychology and ancient wisdom and transpersonal approaches are in rich conversation that invites differing possibilities for self-healing.
In 2010 Christina developed one of the first innovative shamanic psychology therapeutic approach in Australia. This approach was informed by the science of psychology and depth shamanic approaches that she had trained extensively in.
In her therapeutic facilitation she brings a rich breadth and depth of both professional expertise and personal lived experience to her work. She has worked as a therapist in Government, Community Sectors, and Private Practice for over 34 years. Through her own professional and personal journey, she has come to recognise that the most transformative psychotherapy creates a spacious, trusting, holding environment for the full complexity of human experience to be received, and witnessed.
In practice, Christina meets clients not only through skilful therapeutic skill and relationship, but equally through genuine compassionate presence, witness, open curiosity,and profound respect for the deeper conscious and unconscious processes unfolding within each person's purposeful and wise psyche. She identifies herself as a consciousness field therapist that offers a therapeutic perspective that respects the multidimensional aspects of our being: spiritual, energetic, psychological, physical, relational, and environmental.
She is a mother, grandmother, and has had the gift of a loving married life with her husband Wilhelm. The natural world of ocean, woodlands, mountains, and deserts are the places of her deepest nourishment.
Next appointments for new clients begin in March 2027.
We are committed to holding a sacred space for all healing possibilities. Your experience, privacy and confidence are fully respected.
Your journey of self-healing and empowerment
Our services can be offered in person, and via Telehealth for remote, and international clients.
Individual supervision is available for mental health care professionals.
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