Adi Benarroch

Adi Benarroch (she/her)
Psychotherapist • Creative Arts Therapist
PACFA Registered | Online & In-Person (Thornbury, VIC)
Sessions available in English and Spanish

Adi is a psychotherapist and creative arts therapist who supports individuals in reconnecting with their bodies, emotions, and inner knowing. She works with adults navigating trauma, life transitions, anxiety, identity exploration, and relationship challenges.

Her sessions offer a space to slow down, tune in, and gently explore what’s beneath the surface—at your own pace, in your own way. With a warm and grounded presence, Adi offers therapy as a collaborative, compassionate process where all parts of you are welcome.

Adi’s therapeutic approach is trauma-informed and strengths-based. She integrates somatic and sensorimotor psychotherapy with expressive arts, embodiment, and body-focused practices. Her work is grounded in a psychodynamic and attachment-based framework, drawing on principles from interpersonal neurobiology, polyvagal theory, and attachment repair.

Services Offered

• Counselling: Compassionate support through life’s challenges, transitions, and the navigation of difficult emotions.

• Psychotherapy: Collaborative, long-term support to foster awareness and compassion toward your full experience. Together, we work to resolve pressing issues, integrate body–mind experiences, and cultivate personal empowerment—supporting the emergence of meaningful transformation.

• Arts Psychotherapy: The option to engage in creative processes to support emotional and somatic insight. These sessions gently facilitate embodied exploration in a safe, expressive, and non-verbal way—ideal for those who feel drawn to explore their inner experience through imagination and creative practice.

• Psychedelic Integration: Guidance and support in integrating insights from altered states into everyday life. Together, we work to stabilise and organise noble experiences through embodied sense-making of both ordinary and non-ordinary states.

Areas of Focus

Emotional Wellbeing- Support in cultivating resilience and self-awareness in the face of:
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Stress and burnout
• Emotional awareness
• Grief and loss

Trauma & Integration – Deep, embodied work to support healing and integration around:
• Trauma
• Life transitions
• Attachment patterns and relational styles
• Psychedelic integration

Relationships & Connection – Exploring patterns in how we relate to self and others, with support around:
• Relationship challenges (intimate partners, breakups, family, friendships)
• Interpersonal skills

Neurodivergent & Identity-Affirming Support – Space for exploration, understanding, and wellbeing for:
• Neurodivergent individuals (including ADHD, autism, sensory sensitivity)
• LGBTQIA+ individuals
• Culturally and linguistically diverse communities

How Adi Works

Her work supports clients to:
• Understand and shift long-held relational patterns
• Develop emotional awareness and self-regulation
• Reconnect with creativity and intuitive knowing
• Explore identity, belonging, and cultural complexity
• Gently process trauma or grief held in the body
• Integrate insights from altered or expanded states

Lived Experience & Values

Adi brings her lived experience as a migrant and creative to her work, with an understanding of what it means to move through the world with multiple, intersecting identities. She invites clients to explore their own journeys with openness, depth, and compassion.

With a background in design and jewellery making, Adi sees creativity as a natural way we might come to understand ourselves and our experiences. She welcomes those who are curious about integrating their creative spirit into therapy, offering space for imagination, metaphor, and non-linear ways of thinking and expressing to unfold alongside verbal reflection—without pressure or expectation.

Her practice is an affirming, inclusive environment—LGBTQIA+ welcoming, neurodivergent-aware, and culturally sensitive—where safety, agency, and respect for each person’s inner wisdom are central.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts Therapy (Ikon Institute)
Bachelor of Interior Architecture (UNSW)
Certificate in Psychedelic Integration (Integrative Psychology)
Currently undertaking Integrative Attachment Repair Therapy training – Level 1: Three Pillars approach

Availability & Fees
• Individual sessions (50 mins): $140
• Reduced fee: $110 (available for students and low-income clients)
• Location: Online and in-person (Thornbury, VIC)