About your therapy.
The process.
In the safe, collaborative and non-judgemental environment of therapy, what you are experiencing will be respected and sought to be understood. By gaining a new understanding of your patterns of behaviour, practices and goals, therapy can help and direct our innate capability to change.
Therapy is about exploring your own mind. The alliance created between therapist and client provides a vehicle for clients learn new ways of coping and improving relationships, both with themselves, with others and with the world. Therapy is less about solving problems and more about helping patients become better problem solvers.
Psychotherapy is generally considered longer form therapy (minimum of 6 months weekly sessions), while short term sessions are generally a minimum of 10 session.
Therapy allows us to unpack, understand, and re-author, our story.
Our services.
In Person Therapy
Our in person sessions are 50 minutes long and are most commonly held once or twice a week. In some cases, longer sessions are necessary which can be discussed in the initial consultation.
50 mins | $150
Online Therapy
Our online sessions are 50 minutes long and are held over Zoom. You will be provided with a personal link that you can use for all future sessions.
50 mins | $150
Group Therapy
Periodically throughout the year we will run interpersonal psychotherapy groups. Please get in touch for more information.
$70 p/wk for 10 Weeks
Eco Therapy
Having therapy session under nature’s canopy can have a profound healing effect. We offer some site-specific sessions to do therapy outside of the clinical room.
50 mins | $150
Getting started.
1
Book your consultation.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation so we can better understand what is bringing you to therapy.
2
Picking the right therapist.
It is important that we make sure you have found the right therapist for you. If we aren’t a good match, thats ok! We are happy to provide referrals to some wonderful colleagues who may better suit your needs.
3
Schedule your first session.
Once our consultation is finished we can book in our first session and start our journey together.
Meet Tra-ill
Circa is supported and supervised by one of Australia’s finest minds and leading experts in the field of psychotherapy, philosophy and psychiatry – Dr. Tra-ill Dowie, PhD.
Tra-ill is an inter-disciplinary philosopher, academic and clinician. He holds dual PhDs in Philosophy and Psychiatry. Tra-ill is an associate professor of psychotherapy at Ikon Institute, a research fellow at La Trobe University in Philosophy, as well as a Research Fellow at Australian National University in the School of Medicine and Psychology. Tra-ill has also trained with the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and completed their clinician qualification.
As a philosopher and academic, Traill holds degrees in philosophy, the history of ideas, sociology, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne supervised by Dr John Rundell and Dr Cornel West. He works primarily in the intersections between Philosophy and Clinical practice, integrating cognitive science, philosophy of mind and phenomenology.
Traill has a deep abiding interest in the history of psychological intervention and medicine more generally. Traill holds a PhD in Psychiatry from Monash University supervised by Professor Graham Smith, in which he explored the ontological and epistemological foundations of psychological practice in medicine.
As well as having a strong background in social theory and critical theory, Traill has interests in consciousness, imagination, creativity, expression in the body and particularly in the meeting of music and philosophy.
“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.”
— Oscar Wilde