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Melbourne Humanistic Psychotherapist Daniel Lichtman

Daniel Lichtman MA (Couns Psych)

I’m a relationship specialist. Helping you to lead more meaningful, authentic lives through healthier relationships.

I challenge and guide my clients to build and sustain successful and fulfilling personal and professional relationships. Starting with the one with themselves.

 

With fierceness, humour and humility, I champion client’s causes. Humanistic therapy means I focus on your self awareness, acceptance and personal growth.

My focus is working with high-functioning professionals who encounter interpersonal relationship challenges in all domains.

My clients include hedge fund managers, CEOs and CFOs of major international firms. Plus homeless people, bankers, pilots, corporate lawyers, teachers, medical professionals, military personnel and rabbis. All are welcome.

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Daniel Lichtman Integrated Way coaching and counselling Melbourne (Elwood)

Therapy focused on facilitating deep, lasting psychological change and growth, rather than just addressing symptoms. 

Transformational counsellor and humanistic psychotherapist. My counselling and life coaching practice is in Elwood, Melbourne. All genders are welcome. I also run a men’s support group. Online sessions also available. 

Humanistic Psychotherapist Elwood, Melbourne

With my wife Shelley and daughter Maddie.

A humanistic psychotherapist focuses on helping individuals reach their full potential. By fostering self-awareness, self-acceptance, and personal growth, rather than focusing on curing mental disorders. 

Integrative psychotherapists tailor treatment by combining evidence-based therapies to meet each client’s individual needs and goals.

Experienced Relationship Therapy In Melbourne

I’ve been a psychological health professional since 2002. I spend several hundred hours each year doing extensive training in the latest therapeutic and coaching modalities. In order to keep up with the cutting edge healing methods. You could say I am an integrative therapist as I use several styles of therapy.

 

My expertise weaves the combination of years of mindfulness training and Buddhist psychology training. Along with advanced studies of cutting edge developmental neuroscience and attachment theory. Including Psychobiological approach to Couples Therapy and Emotion focused therapy. 

 

However, my own relationships are the real wellspring of my knowledge and wisdom. My experience as a committed husband, father, son and friend most heavily inform how I help other.

Testimonials

Daniel's direct, no BS style, immediately cut through to the core of what was creating problems in my relationship and helped me figure out what to do about it.
SHANTI RUBENS
SHANTI RUBENSLawyer - Australia
Daniel has a rare gift for facilitating meaningful connections in the moment — felt experiences rather than mental concepts. These experiences show rather than tell couples how they can create more authentic, intimate, and satisfying relationships.
Allison C
Allison CConsultant
His laser-sharp skills pick up on the subtle, yet incredibly vital, cues that lead to real transformation, unfolding, and ability to relate deeply and authentically. I highly recommend Daniel for anyone who is looking to heal, transform, or simply go deeper in their romantic relationships and connection with others.
Krista B
Krista BDesigner
Working with Daniel has been life changing. He exudes “living in the moment”. Just sitting next to him, I sense a calm within myself that I’ve not known otherwise. The weeks that I spent in group work with Daniel have shown me more of myself than I ever could have imagined, and I am better for it.
Nathan W
Nathan WCEO of Outsource Locally
He’s a gifted leader and men’s coach. He has razor sharp insights, and always delivers them with strength and gentleness. His personal integrity, and willingness to share and live what he teaches, has helped me to be a more open, loving, and stronger man.
Rick J
Rick JDirector eLearning Services
Daniel is extremely skilled at inviting both men and women to deepen into more intimacy and connection with each other, even amidst conflict or painful emotions. His style is a beautiful mix of friendly and compassionate but also powerful and directive
Lara I
Lara IDating Coach
Daniel is so willing, as a facilitator and leader, to open himself in such a pure and loving way that deeply serves others by his presence and authenticity. It is rare to see someone so able to show up in such a real and vulnerable way, while simultaneously holding the space and intention of the whole group with such love, integrity and wisdom.
Rabbi Marc S
Rabbi Marc SCongregation Bonai Shalom
Daniel has a wonderfully welcoming, relaxed style, making you feel instantly at ease in his company and trusting of his confidence. Spending time with him was like opening the curtains to our relationship, allowing us to see with clarity what our individual and collective needs and requirements are, and also to understand what buttons to try to avoid pressing, and how to deal with it when they sometimes, inevitably, get pressed. Our time with Daniel has been extremely rewarding and we’d like to thank him for all his listening, coaching and imparted wisdom
B & NInvestment Banking
Daniel has a knack of getting to the root of a problem. He has a relaxed and informal style which immediately makes you feel comfortable, but is not afraid to challenge you and ask difficult questions when need be.
HDFinance Industry
Since I have started talking to Daniel, I have found that my approach and outlook to happenings great and small have changed. Daniel has helped me to understand my reaction to certain situations, and to accept my reaction and have more choice in the steps that I follow, with a more informed outlook. I look forward to my regular meetings with Daniel and though I still feel that I have a long road to reach my goal, I do feel that I am making positive progress to being more aware of myself and my emotions.
JDService Manager
Daniel is capable of turning even the biggest skeptic around with his empathetic, engaging style. But it is his ability to read people, and master the skill of pushing boundaries without ever making you feel uncomfortable, that truly sets him apart. He taught my partner and I how to connect more deeply, overcoming hurdles that once seemed daunting. Thanks to him, we learned to be self-aware and mindful of each others needs which has been infinitely rewarding.
JuneLawyer
Daniel has a unique balance of empathy, intellect and insight. He knows when to support and when to challenge. Working with him has given me a toolkit that has helped me in all aspects of my personal and professional life. Like many things we do, I have found that living openly and authentically requires knowledge and practice; Daniel is a skillful teacher and guide.
SASenior Executive, Banking
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How I Work - Humanistic + Integrative Therapy

My approach is driven by scientific research and 2 decades experience in psychotherapy and life coaching. It shows that secure-functioning, emotionally healthy relationships enhance our personal well-being. 

We’ll trace and unpack the root causes of your outdated, emotional habits and knee-jerk reactions to stress. So they can be unravelled, unlearned and replaced with effective and skilful replacements. Based on wisdom, compassion and understanding.

We are all programmed to experience relationships in a particular way. Based on our early primary relationships: how we were related to and what was modelled to us as children. 

These emotional habits are hardwired into our brains and nervous systems without us realising. They dramatically impact how we function in our adult relationships. 

They include a whole set of beliefs about ourselves and the world. We are generally unaware of their influence and the extent that these beliefs are running our lives. Integrative psychotherapy merges different elements to provide a transformational counselling experience.

I’ll equip you to increase your emotional intelligence. To develop insight and compassion about who you are and how you have been living. 

Under the surface, emotions drive many of our decisions. Most of us do not fully understand the emotions that influence our decisions and reactions to stress.

I help people understand the emotional habits that influence their everyday decisions. 

As soon as we experience stress, we are not run by our conscious mind any more. We are run by a more basic programme – older automatic emotional habits that were intelligent responses in early life. 

You will develop greater freedom to respond rather than react. You will have greater freedom to choose how to respond to stressful moments. The therapy will allow you to more skilfully navigate difficult relationships.

Below you will see some of my credentials. I have used this education for integrative therapy, hence the practice being called Integrated Way. Which merged into transformational counselling. Since moving to Melbourne, humanistic therapist is more accurate. 

My Qualifications + Accreditations

Counselling in Elwood, Melbourne

Registered Psychotherapist PACFA Australia

Masters of Transpersonal Counselling Psychology Naropa University (Boulder, CO)

Certified PACT(Level 2) Couple Therapist PACT Institute (Los Angeles CA)

Certified Gestalt Therapist (CGT) Boulder Psychotherapy Institute, (Boulder, CO)

Advanced Certificate in Emotional Focused Couple Therapy OCFI Ottawa Family and Couples Institute (Ottawa, Canada)

Certificate in Transformational Coaching Advanced Transformational Coaching and Leadership Training Program (San Fransisco, CA)

Certified Group Psychotherapist Boulder Psychotherapy Institute, (Boulder, CO)

Certified EMDR Practitioner EMDR institute (Jerusalem, Israel)

Certified Transformational Coach Circling Institute, USA 

Tel: 0402 395 613

EMAIL: daniel@integratedway.com

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