Nathan Dick
Psychotherapist
Masters in Gestalt Psychotherapy
PRONOUNS: He/Him
Nathan is a Gestalt Therapist who specialises in supporting adults and relationships to become more secure, responsive, and flexible using the Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) model.
Nathan has experience and expertise in the following areas:
- Depression, anxiety, grief & stress
- Marital, relationship & parenting distress
- Coercive control & recovery from abusive relationships
- Trauma, complex trauma, C-PTSD & disorganised attachment
- Anger management, substance abuse & addiction
- Neurodivergence (ASD, ADHD, SPD, dyslexia)
- Narcissistic abuse & adverse childhood experiences
- Issues regarding sex & sexuality
- Gender fluidity, non-binary & trans experiences
- Healing from systemic and structural oppression & marginalisation
- Navigating ending relationships, divorce, separation & co-parenting
Nathan is warm, approachable, and non-judgemental. He strives to create a safe, accepting culture that is:
- Neurodiversity Affirming (ND affirming)
- Anti-oppressive
- LGBTIQA+ friendly
- NDIS friendly
- Poly and non-monogamy friendly
- Sex worker friendly
- Kink friendly
- Fat friendly
Qualifications, Education & Training
- Masters in Gestalt psychotherapy,
- Externship, Core Skills A & Core Skills B in EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy),
- Assisted Advanced Training in EFT (Core Skills A and B, Attachment Injury Repair Model),
- Advanced training in Depth Enquiry,
- Published research on neuroscience-informed psychotherapy, and its application to working sensitively with trauma and attachment injury, and
- Extensive ongoing supervision and training in Emotionally Focussed Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, and Attachment Theory.
Associations, Memberships & Accreditation
- PACFA. Reg. Clinical 27186
- GANZ (Gestalt Australia and New Zealand) member
- Treasurer and Council member for GANZ (Gestalt Australia and New Zealand)
- ICEEFT member
- BCEFT member
Nathan’s Identity: White, gender non-conforming cis man, heterosexual, monogamous, able-bodied, neurodivergent, parent of three children (born: 2000, 2005, 2013).
Nathan’s lived experience: Single parenting, neurodivergence (ND), parenting ND children, DV, bullying, chronic pain. Note: Nathan is happy to discuss his identity, lived experience, and values. If you are curious about this, please feel free to ask him.
Nathan writes…
“Are you struggling to feel a sense of connection to yourself and/or your partner(s)? Do you and your partner(s) keep getting into different versions of what feels like the same fight? Are you wanting to break that negative cycle and find more meaning and connection?
My approach is gentle, evidence-informed and relational. My work is trauma-sensitive, attachment & evidence-informed. My greatest skills as a therapist come from my lived experience. I learn from being a parent, partner, son, brother, uncle and friend. Attachment theory, trauma and embodiment are particular interests and inform my practice. I enjoy helping people reconnect with their bodies, make sense of their emotions, heal past hurts and lay down new neural pathways through creating (and protecting) a secure bond with their self and important others.
I support clients with the EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) model, which is backed up by several decades of neuroscience research. However, every relationship is different, so I aim to be flexible within this model and responsive to each client’s needs. We can work on skills development, psycho education and tools to support healthy communication and emergence of vulnerability and intimacy, and we can work to heal old hurt and replace old patterns with more adaptive, healthy ones.”
Nathan’s availability:
- Morningside: Monday & Tuesday evenings (5.15pm – 7.30pm)
- New Farm: Fridays (fortnightly; 12.30pm – 4.30pm)
- Murwillumbah, NSW: Fridays (fortnightly; 10.30am – 5.30pm)
- Online (Zoom): Mondays and Tuesdays (12pm – 3.30pm), Thursdays (11.45am – 5pm), and Fridays (10.30am – 11.30am)
- Nathan also offers limited Saturday appointments at Morningside and Muwillumbah upon request (additional $40 per session)
Nathan handles all client inquiries and bookings, and can be contacted on the below details, or you can book/manage appointments via his online portal by clicking the button below.
Email: nathan@healingground.com.au
Phone: 0413 529 638
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