meet our team

Alana Tassie

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker

Location

Suite 402, Level 4, 9 Bronte Rd, Bondi Junction 2022

Hours

Tuesdays 8am – 4pm
Wednesdays 8am – 4pm

CONTACT INFORMATION

Coming soon

Meet Alana

Alana is a senior clinician with specialist expertise assisting adolescents, adults and families navigate relationships, trauma and mental health. Alana provides therapy to individuals and families. Alana also offers clinical supervision to practitioners across health, school and community settings impacted by trauma.

With her genuine warmth and attentiveness, Alana is able to connect with people of all ages. Alana encourages humour, creativity and self-expression. She facilitates self-reflection in a highly supportive environment.

Her expertise have developed over a career of significant study and training as well as experiences working across hospital and community settings. Alana promotes a collaborative and child-centred approach to patient care.

Alana combines four core relational counselling frameworks in her practice: Attachment Theory, Systemic Family Therapy, Psychodynamic Theory and Emotion-Focused Therapy. Alana also has training in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Therapy and Parenting Strategies. She has a skilful ability to adapt her approach to best meet her client’s needs, progress and counselling goals.

Alana is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and Medicare provider. She has a Bachelor and Masters of Social Work (in counselling) from UNSW. Alana has undertaken supervision best practice training. In 2014 Alana published a paper titled “Vicarious Resilience from Attachment Trauma” which explores the process of practitioner resilience that can be harnessed through work with traumatised clients and communities.

Alana is no longer accepting pss referrals