Trauma & Anxiety Therapy | Sydney & Online

Understanding Your Story Is Important, Healing Goes Deeper

Knowing why is important, but it isn’t always enough to change how you feel.

Inner Strength Therapy specialises in trauma-focused psychotherapy, working with the lasting effects of trauma and difficult early experiences. These can show up in many different ways, including anxiety, depression, PTSD, complex trauma, shame, relationship difficulties and patterns that can leave you feeling stuck.

Trauma isn’t always obvious. Many people come to therapy believing “nothing really happened to me, ” yet struggle with feeling not good enough, difficulty trusting or getting close to others, people-pleasing, shame, or a persistent sense that something is missing.

Sometimes it is not only what happened to us, but what we needed and didn’t receive that continues to shape how we feel about ourselves and how we relate to others.

My approach goes beyond talking about what has happened. While understanding your story is important, many of the patterns we struggle with also involve deeper emotional, physiological and nervous-system responses.

Stephen Moore – Psychotherapist
PACFA REG CLINICAL 22636

Stephen Moore – Psychotherapist PACFA REG CLINICAL 22636

I use an integrative approach drawing on Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), somatic psychotherapy, IFS-informed parts work, Resource Therapy and therapeutic breathing techniques, tailoring therapy to you rather than expecting you to fit a particular therapeutic model.

Often we look to our relationships to heal something that first needs attention within ourselves. Unresolved pain can shape who we are drawn to, how we respond to others and the patterns we repeat in our relationships. By working with and integrating these experiences, relationships can become a source of connection, intimacy and growth rather than a place where old wounds continue to play out.

Therapy can help you understand where your patterns came from, work with the experiences that shaped them, and create lasting change in how you feel, respond and relate to yourself and the people around you. This is at the heart of Inner Strength Therapy.

Areas of Specialisation

MEET STEPHEN

Stephen Moore, Psychotherapist, Counsellor & Clinical Supervisor.

I’ve been working as a therapist since 2013, with much of my practice now focused on trauma, anxiety, attachment and relationship difficulties. Alongside my therapy practice, I also provide clinical supervision to counsellors and psychotherapists.

What drew me to psychotherapy was a desire to understand what happened to a person, rather than simply asking what is wrong with them. That philosophy continues to shape the way I work today.

I believe therapy should be collaborative, compassionate and adapted to the individual. Sometimes that means talking and understanding. At other times, meaningful change requires working more deeply with the emotional, relational and nervous-system responses that talking alone may not reach.

PACFA REG CLINICAL 22636 | EMDRAA Accredited Practitioner | PACFA Certified Supervisor

Professional Registration & Private Health Rebates

I am a Clinical Member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) and practise in accordance with PACFA’s professional and ethical standards.

I am also an EMDRAA Accredited Practitioner, having completed recognised training and accreditation in EMDR therapy.

Depending on your level of Extras cover, you may be eligible for a private health insurance rebate for psychotherapy sessions through Medibank, AHM, Bupa, ARHG or HCF. Please check directly with your health fund to confirm your individual eligibility and rebate.

PACFA REG CLINICAL 22636 EMDRAA Accredited Practitioner