The Relationship Room

Rachel Voysey is the Founding Director and Principal Psychologist at The Relationship Room. Over the years, she has worked with hundreds of couples and individuals, helping them build healthy relationships, navigate crisis, improve communication skills, break repeating patterns, rebuild sex and intimacy, and improve individual wellbeing. As a registered psychologist, Rachel values integrating individual self-development within her couples’ process. Rachel believes that the combination of individual growth and self-awareness work within the couples’ therapy leads to a depth and longevity to the change process that cannot be achieved with a one size fits all approach. It is a strong held belief for Rachel that if individuals invest in the therapy process, they should engage with a very personal approach that gives them a lot more than just theoretical solutions that could be found in a book or on a podcast.

Rachel has a special interest in infidelity and has extensive experience in helping couples navigate this relationship crisis with sensitivity, respect, and depth to find meaningful outcomes. Rachel values the opportunity to facilitate both healing the pain and trauma as well as assisting couples to reconnect and rebuild or make the decision to find closure and move on post betrayal. Individual therapy specialising in relationship patterns is also an area of special interest. Rachel’s experience in singles and dating work focuses on breaking systemic and repeating patterns that are affecting an individual’s ability to choose and/or participate in healthy intimate relationships.

Rachel uses a blend of empirically validated treatments, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy. She has also completed the comprehensive training in the Gottman Method Couples Therapy, which is a very popular treatment for modern couples. In addition to being founder of The Relationship Room, Rachel’s expertise and knowledge is often sought out by the media as a speaker and trusted expert on a range of topics relating to relationships and mental health.

Services eligible for Medicare rebate on individual sessions.

Stuart is a Registered Psychologist with extensive experience working with couples, families, and individuals. Stuart specialises in conflict resolution, facilitating effective communication, emotional regulation, perspective taking and co-parenting. Stuart has spent a large part of his professional life working systemically with couples, parents, adolescents, and families. He is continually mindful of the impact of individual difficulties on relationships, such as PTSD, personality disorders, anxiety, depression, and stress, and works collaboratively with clients to manage complex relational dynamics.

The therapeutic process is as important to Stuart as the therapy itself. This, combined with the principles of Stabilisation Based Therapy (SBT), ensures that clients always feel safe through the therapy process, and that there is a continuous, shared understanding of goals and therapeutic purpose.

Stuart trained in the UK and since worked across a wide range of mental health services both as a clinician and within leadership roles, including forensic mental health, drug and alcohol clinics, and multiple modes of individual and family therapy. Stuart has worked across Europe, Africa and Australia where therapeutically working in culturally safe ways is of utmost importance to him.

Recently, Stuart has specialised in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT). He finds that these approaches combined, enhance clients’ insights into themselves and their own personal triggers to distress which can then be managed together.

Services eligible for Medicare rebate on individual sessions.

Please note Saturday sessions incur a $10 surcharge

Emma Walters is a valued member of the Relationship Room team with five years’ experience supporting couples and individuals to engage with the therapy process. As a Provisional Psychologist, Emma integrates a depth of understanding of mental health with a warm, friendly approach to her couples and individual clients. Emma works within several therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy which allow her to achieve meaningful outcomes whilst making clients feel safe and comfortable in the therapy space. Emma is trained in the highly reputable Gottman Method Couples Therapy and often uses approaches from the Gottman methodology in her couples’ work, with a focus on communication, emotion regulation, conflict management and connection. Emma particularly enjoys working with couples through a pre-marriage lens to build greater awareness of each other and to establish skills for navigating obstacles using evidence-based interventions.

With a longstanding passion for psychology and mental health, Emma works to support her clients through many difficult experiences, including relationship issues, anxiety, depression, grief and stress. Emma also assists clients seeking to raise their self-awareness, identify self-limiting beliefs and behaviours and assists those who are generally interested in enhancing their wellbeing or performance with solution-focused coaching and therapy. Emma also utilises mindfulness, meditation and grounding techniques to provide her clients with resources to support their therapy experience. Emma works closely under our Principal Psychologist, Rachel, who supports Emma regularly to continue to develop her clinical approach.

With over 20 years of experience, Kelly is a committed relationship therapist dedicated to guiding couples and individuals toward healthier communication, relationship dynamics, and intimacy. She works with the unique needs of each client helping them repair connections strained by conflicts, emotional wounds, infidelity, betrayal, or crises. Her holistic and compassionate approach allows clients to be deeply seen and heard, creating profound relationship clarity and connection.

Sessions with Kelly focus on building self-awareness, understanding core dynamics and patterns, and creating new strategies for effective communication, conflict resolution, repair and healing. Kelly also offers practical tools and activities for continued progress outside of sessions. With advanced training in intimacy, Kelly assists couples in reigniting desire, addressing libido changes, mismatched intimacy styles, shame, fear, and the scars of addiction or betrayal. Her expertise also extends to helping individuals and couples overcome body shame, facilitating trauma healing, and nurturing self-confidence, fostering newfound self-expression and connection.

As an experienced online practitioner and teacher, Kelly seamlessly transitions the therapeutic environment to an online setting. With a Master of Counselling and extensive postgraduate training in relationships, trauma, and mental health, Kelly employs a wide array of therapeutic tools tailored to each individual and couple including those from Internal Family Systems, Attachment Theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Somatic Psychotherapy, The Gottman Method, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Embodiment Therapy, Sex and Intimacy Therapy, and Somatic Movement.

Kelly offers regular workshops at The Relationship Room and is a respected member of the health and relationship community in Australia and beyond.

Jane is a Senior Therapist and brings over 20 years of experience in the couples and relationship therapy space to her sessions. These years of experience ground Jane in achieving strong therapeutic outcomes for both couples and individuals that work with her. Jane’s relationship focussed work allows couples to identify and break through negative interactional cycles, explore the past with depth and sensitivity and move into renewed ways of being. Jane is an authentic, honest, non-judgmental therapist who will walk alongside you on your therapy journey. One point of passion is working with people from diverse groups, including those from the LGBTQIA+ community. Jane welcomes and accepts all relationship shapes and types into her therapy space. Jane creates a very safe space that allows a strong therapeutic bond to grow, and for effective work to be done. Jane has a great sense of humour and warmth, and with her 20+ years of experience in complex presentations, she is equipped to hold space that allows for vulnerability and growth.

Jane’s experience and breadth of knowledge allows her to use practical, evidence-based interventions, underpinned by the depth of psychodynamic and psychoanalytical methods. Jane’s extensive training allows her to explore couples’ and individual histories, while utilising Family Systems Therapy (specifically Bowen Theory), Couples Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Emotional Freedom Techniques. Jane’s specific areas of interest are trauma, childhood trauma, post-natal depression and bereavement. Jane works effectively with couples and families, and when working with young children involves the entire family to affect changes within the family system. She is passionate about allowing people to make the changes they feel necessary for themselves to grow.

Jane has achieved the highest level of accreditation as a Mental Health Social Worker and can offer Medicare rebates for eligible services. Jane holds a Bachelor of Social Work and has undertaken intensive post-graduate training in Psychotherapy, Narrative Therapy and Family Systems.

Services eligible for Medicare rebate on individual sessions.

Angie’s 25+ years of counselling couples and individuals, combined with her compassionate interest in people’s wellbeing, creates a safe space for her clients to be vulnerable and open to improve their understanding of their struggles. This enables them to live life with greater confidence and experience more fulfilling relationships.

Her clients leave their sessions feeling challenged, with greater self-awareness, clarity of patterns of thinking and strategies for dealing with behaviours that may have kept them stuck and anxious. They are equipped with improved coping mechanisms, tools to manage conflict and methods to effectively communicate their relationship needs. This increased knowledge and renewal helps them to create more meaningful interactions with their family of origin, partners, children, friends and in the workplace. Angie facilitates both couples and individuals to practise effective listening and confront their perception of fear whilst tolerating painful truths. The healing and rebuilding of trust often begins in the counselling session.

Angie’s other areas of experience include managing anxiety, mismatched relationship needs, coping with affairs, deciding whether to stay or leave, re-partnering, boundary setting, parenting, grief and loss, challenges with core values and life stage transition. Angie also works with couples preparing for marriage and family planning as she believes building skills when things are going well is critically important to good relationship outcomes.
Angie is trained in a range of therapeutic models including Family Systems Theory, Attachment Theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to support individuals and couples experience change in the counselling room. She also uses Narrative Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy and ACT. She is also trained in the Gottman Method. Angie has a Bachelor of Social Work and has completed an extensive range of Post Graduate training on therapeutic approaches.

Please note Saturday sessions incur a $10 surcharge

David holds a MA Psychotherapy and Grad. Dip. Counselling & Psychotherapy and has worked for over 10 years as a Relationship Educator running programs for couples such as Couples Communication, Preparing for Long Term Relationships, and Parenting After Separation. He also ran many programs for men including Managing Anger, Men and Relationships, Communication for Men, and Men and Self-Esteem.

In his couples’ focused work, David uses the highly regarded Gottman Method Couples Therapy approach along with Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help couples rebuild a strong connection by improving their communication skills and understanding and improving negative interactional patterns. David believes psychoeducation is an important part of therapy, and that changed behaviour can come through learning new skills as well as from powerful therapeutic experiences.

Key to working with individuals is the forming of a safe therapeutic relationship to support the client to explore how and where they want to grow and where they are stuck. David is passionate about working with men to help them transform their relationship with anger and find effective ways to express themselves while not harming others. David has worked with various addictions including to alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, and eating disorders using therapeutic methods including 12-step facilitation techniques, Motivational Interviewing, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and Systemic Therapy.

Please note Saturday sessions incur a $10 surcharge

Nazifa discovered her passion for couples counselling after several years of working with individuals. She realised that healthy and close relationships are essential for a meaningful life. To equip herself with the necessary skills to help couples navigate their differences and create fulfilling and connected relationships, she immersed herself in Emotionally Focused Therapy and other attachment-informed therapies. It is particularly rewarding for Nazifa when couples gain insights into why they are stuck, helping her guide them towards forming new patterns. Nazifa is also trained in the highly regarded Gottman Method Couples Therapy, which assists couples in navigating conflict, improving communication and rebuilding connection through evidence-based, highly effective couples-focused skills and interventions.

Alongside working with couples, Nazifa has over a decade of experience working with individuals and groups. She employs Emotionally Focused Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and Psychodynamic Therapy to assist them in overcoming their unique challenges and obstacles. Nazifa has always kept a strong client-centred focus in her work and supports individuals throughout their journey of growth and change. She is mainly focused on assisting clients in reconnecting with their true identities and healing from past traumas.

Nazifa’s multicultural background gives her a deep understanding of the complexities of cross-cultural relationships and cultural transitions. She uses this experience to help clients from diverse backgrounds to overcome tensions that may arise from country relocation, cultural integration, and cultural differences in a relationship. Nazifa is a member of PACFA and continually enhances her knowledge and skills through workshops and webinars.

Heather is a registered counsellor who enjoys working with individuals and couples to identify any challenges they are facing and collaboratively problem solves to develop strategies and tools to use in their daily life. Using a variety of therapy modes such as Gottman Method Couples Therapy and Solution-Focussed Therapy, Heather works with clients to improve self-esteem, help set goals, communicate effectively, and improve relationships with others, which in turn, leads to happiness and personal well-being.

Heather has a wide range of experience with adults and adolescents and has worked with clients with addiction and mood disorders. Her empathetic and non-judgmental approach provides a safe environment for her clients to work through any aspect of their life they are struggling with. When working with couples, Heather collaborates with clients to identify issues, clarify any problems, and develop strategies to improve and attain your relationship goals. Heather is passionate about helping individuals become their best “self” to deal with everyday stressors, connections, and relationships. Developing self-awareness, self-confidence, and relationship skills to enhance friendships, work relationships and personal relationships is an area of interest.

Please note Saturday sessions incur a $10 surcharge