Whole Self Psychotherapy

Whole Self Psychotherapy Specializing in the treatment of trauma and mental health applying Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Sydney, Australia

Whole Self Psychotherapy and counselling provides a holistic approach to your well being. This means we work not only with your thoughts, but also your feelings and body sensations. Available in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs and the inner West, Monday to Friday, 9am – 7pm by appointment. Feel free to contact Tessa Ipp, psychotherapy practitioner at Whole Self Psychotherapy. Tessa is a Clinical Social Worker with more than 16 years experience working with families and individuals. Tessa is a Certified Sensorimotor psychotherapist and a graduate of Internal Family Systems therapy and Hakomi experiential psychotherapy. Her warm, gentle and inclusive approach to therapy creates a safe and confidential space for your healing to happen.

Couples WorkWe are excited to be bringing to the clinic a new approach to working with couples called a Psychobiological...
11/02/2026

Couples Work

We are excited to be bringing to the clinic a new approach to working with couples called a Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT Institute). The aim is to help Couples know they are in each other’s care.

Being your own person makes you strong
28/01/2026

Being your own person makes you strong

Couples TherapyWe are aiming to create a secure functioning couple in therapy. Exciting for couples to find their shared...
12/01/2026

Couples Therapy

We are aiming to create a secure functioning couple in therapy.

Exciting for couples to find their shared vision, purpose, and shared principles of mutual governance, bound by agreements that serve both people to form a realistic understanding of their coming together. These agreements may be based on fairness, generosity, honesty and creativity among many others.

Couples TherapyWe are driven by the need to remain safe and held in the context of relationships. As primates we need e...
30/12/2025

Couples Therapy

We are driven by the need to remain safe and held in the context of relationships. As primates we need each other to survive. Our very identity rests on our need to know ourselves through our memories held in the frontal lobes of our brains where our forehead is. Love yourself via your life and feel well today.

Bring in your best self leader to the new year 2026 we send love 🧡
25/12/2025

Bring in your best self leader to the new year 2026 we send love 🧡

Couples TherapyWhen I am for myself in a relationship I threaten the relationship I’m developing. When I am for our rel...
12/12/2025

Couples Therapy

When I am for myself in a relationship I threaten the relationship I’m developing.

When I am for our relationship then I am building one.

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Bring forth your vitality in the form of certainty
10/12/2025

Bring forth your vitality in the form of certainty

We are looking for more Self Leader energy culminating in care, kind, brave, strong, insightful and loving to name a few...
05/12/2025

We are looking for more Self Leader energy culminating in care, kind, brave, strong, insightful and loving to name a few.

With this understanding we venture forth to find a you in you that has more time to give to your part by slowing down the internal chatter and asking a part from within to talk to you.

Herein we learn about ourselves and develop a greater sense of self mastery.

Your love for yourself is real.Our relationship to our self leader and the mutual exchange experienced as it embraces us...
02/12/2025

Your love for yourself is real.

Our relationship to our self leader and the mutual exchange experienced as it embraces us brings each and everyone of us abundance.

IFS respectful approach to therapyRichard Schwartz founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) encourages us to acknowledge...
26/11/2025

IFS respectful approach to therapy

Richard Schwartz founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) encourages us to acknowledge and befriend all our parts of our whole self.

Don’t get rid of the part, rather see if we can help the part retire from it’s role.

We begin by speaking for the part, for example I have a part of me that feels entitled and this part keeps me lonely. Let’s see if it’s willing to retire from its need to feel superior keeping me lonely.

Trauma is the experience of loss of connection. In therapy we are always looking at ways to connect with ourselves and ...
15/11/2025

Trauma is the experience of loss of connection. In therapy we are always looking at ways to connect with ourselves and others to once again feel connected and belong to others.

Somatic therapy engages you with your inner experience to find calm and a love for life. It’s just taking that first step to phone and book an appointment that can be daunting but long lasting benefits do surpass the fear of getting started.

Present moment awareness of just this moment brings wonderment to our senses. There’s a dragonfly shimmering in the sum...
11/11/2025

Present moment awareness of just this moment brings wonderment to our senses. There’s a dragonfly shimmering in the summery sunlight.

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Sydney, NSW
2022

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 7pm
Tuesday 9am - 7pm
Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

Telephone

0422507209

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Whole Self Psychotherapy and counselling provides a holistic approach to your well being. This means we work not only with your thoughts, but also your feelings and body sensations. Available in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs and the inner West, Monday to Friday, 9am – 7pm by appointment. Feel free to contact Tessa Ipp, psychotherapy practitioner at Whole Self Psychotherapy. Tessa is a Clinical Social Worker with more than 16 years experience working with families and individuals. Tessa is a Certified Sensorimotor psychotherapist and a graduate of Internal Family Systems therapy and Hakomi experiential psychotherapy. Her warm, gentle and inclusive approach to therapy creates a safe and confidential space for your healing to happen.