Anna Sharashova

General Psychologist

BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Counselling) MAPS

PRONOUNS: She/Her

Anna is a General Psychologist who completed her postgraduate qualification in Psychology at the University of Queensland. She brings clinical experience working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families across diverse settings. Anna is known for her grounded, compassionate presence and her ability to create a comfortable and respectful therapeutic space with the goal to make her clients feel safe and understood.

With a particular passion in attachment and relationships, Anna works together with individuals and couples to foster insight into their behavioural patterns, strengthen emotional awareness, explore practical coping and communication tools coping, while navigating disconnect and conflict, to ultimately move toward meaningful and purposeful change and build more secure and fulfilling relationships with self and others.

She also has a longstanding involvement with not-for-profit youth mental health organisations. Alongside parents, she strives to support young people by building their confidence and sense of self, strengthening social skills, enhancing emotional regulation, and exploring family dynamics.

Her approach is integrative, evidence-based, and person-centred, incorporating therapeutic frameworks such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Committed to ongoing professional growth, Anna is working toward certification with the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy as an EFT therapist and aspires to become an accredited sexologist.

Anna is skilled in treatment of a wide range of concerns, including:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Relationship and sexual intimacy difficulties
• Life transitions and adjustment challenges
• Stress and burnout
• Identity and sense of self concerns
• Grief and loss
• Trauma and distressing life events

Anna’s diary is open to new individuals and couples, with availability Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays in person & online