Stephanie Mitchell

Ph.D.

Founder and Director at Connection Heals Psychotherapy Centre

http://www.stephaniemitchell.com.au/

Stephanie Mitchell specialises in working with early developmental trauma, dissociation and experiences that often get diagnosed as PBD, PTSD, “psychosis” and other psychiatric diagnoses. She is a passionate advocate for non-pathologising ways of understanding and working with clients, outside the constructs of diagnostic labels.

Expert Bio

Stephanie Mitchell is a Level 3 Certified IFS therapist, working in private practice in Australia. Stephanie specialises in working with early developmental trauma, dissociation and experiences that often get diagnosed as PBD, PTSD, “psychosis” and other psychiatric diagnoses. She is a passionate advocate for non-pathologising ways of understanding and working with clients, outside the constructs of diagnostic labels.   Stephanie is an educator who has reached thousands of people through courses, seminars and interviews on IFS for early developmental trauma. Stephanie also heads up a team of 5 therapists at Connection Heals Psychotherapy Centre. She is a passionate mentor for IFS therapists deepening into more self-led approaches to working in and with clients who use projection and transference as part of their healing in the therapeutic relationship.   Stephanie is currently undertaking research on "IFS for Non-Ordinary Experiences" (psychosis), in a collaboration between the University California San Francisco and Flinders University, with Lead Investigator Ian Whitmarsh and co-investigator Sharon Lawn.   Stephanie’s origins in mental health work were formed in lived experience roles and this work informs her ways of being with others going through distress. Believing that a therapist can only take a client as far as they themselves have travelled, Stephanie has undertaken her own long journey of healing from significant childhood trauma with an IFS Practitioner. With over 7 years of her own personal IFS therapy, Stephanie is deeply acquainted with her own parts and embodies the IFS model from the inside out.