About Me
My training and experience
Hi, I’m Dr Trudy Clutterbok.
For thirty years, I've worked as a counsellor, senior clinician, educator and clinical supervisor across many of the community and mental health services in Victoria.
For the past ten years, I've been in private practice. I have completed Bachelor studies in Psychology, a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy and a Masters of Social Work. I explored linguistic violence in my PhD. This helped me to become more aware of the power of words and language. I'll treat you and your words with care and respect. I have trained in Psychoanalysis, Attachment Theory, Mentalisation Based Therapy and cultural approaches to mental illness. I attend regular psychoanalytic supervision and a regular psychoanalytic seminar. I'm an accredited clinical supervisor with PACFA and I can accept referrals for Medicare rebated counselling.
I'm happy to work with anyone. I don't think you'll regret working with me.
My work is, among other things, about freedom of expression.
More accurately, it's concerned with "free-speak", an ever-emergent practice in the present tense, rather than a formalised creed or principle.
I donate a percentage of each session fee from my service to PEN International.
PEN brings into practice the principle of freedom of expression by defending the rights that ensue - they protect, shelter and resettle writers at risk of harm, imprisonment or death. They also conduct research, promote suppressed world literature, provide advice, advocacy and access to legal help and more. I encourage you to connect with their work, here: https://www.pen-international.org/
I offer
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We can discuss establishing a weekly or twice-weekly time to embark on a psychoanalysis.
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Individual, group, in-person or online clinical supervision for psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, family mediators, family violence practitioners, psychologists and other health, lived-experience, medical, community practitioners and managers, including those working towards an accreditation.
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I like the word counselling as I think it's accessible and lacks the potentially bourgeois connotations of the term "therapy". Art, literature, political philosophy and psychoanalysis inform my counselling approaches.
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In person or online, evidence based, Medicare rebated counselling for six - ten sessions with a referral from your GP or Psychiatrist
I'm especially interested in working with adults who were bright, gifted, talented or exceptional children, with artists, LGBTQI+ folk, and with people who feel themselves to be outsiders in any way.
My other areas of specialisation include attachment issues, long-term depression, feelings of isolation and unusual thoughts or experiences.
I am happy to work with any diagnosis you have been given. I can also work with any of the issues listed below:
Specialties:
Gifted, talented, twice exceptional adults, Outsiders and artists, LGBTQ+
Issues:
ADHD, Neurodivergence, Adoption, including forced, Stolen Generation, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality (BPD), Chronic Illness, Depression, Mourning and Melancholia, Problems with desire, motivation or initiation, Emotional disturbance, Friendship issues, Grief and Loss, HIV/Aids, Bereavement, Life Transitions, Obsession-Compulsions (OCD), Pregnancy, Prenatal concerns, Postpartum concerns, Psychosis, Relationship issues, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia, Self Esteem, Suicidal thoughts, Women's Issues, Men's issues, Non-binary issues, Mental Health, Dissociative Disorders (DID), Mood Disorders, Personality Disorders, Parental or parenting issues, Thinking Disorders, Sexuality and gender, Questioning faith, drug and alcohol use, sexuality or madness
Dr. Trudy Clutterbok has been a proudly Queer owned and operated service since the turn of the century
