Loredana Punal

Loredana is a Clinical Counsellor, registered with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA), with a Master of Counselling and Applied Psychotherapy and completing a 3-year specialist training in Somatic Intersubjective Self-Psychology.

Loredana works as a holistic trauma counsellor, and psychotherapist, combining a person-centred, humanistic and compassionate approach with a particular interest in working with the challenges of complex trauma.

Her therapeutic work with clients aims to guide and facilitate self-awareness and widen one’s perspective; increase emotional capacity and tolerance for intense and complex emotions; cultivate a felt sense of safety and develop capacity for calm, presence, clarity and connection; cultivate qualities such as curiosity, courage, patience, and playfulness; and develop self-acceptance, self-compassion, self-trust, self-esteem and self-agency.

Loredana’s therapeutic approach is Integrative and has its roots in three main modalities:

• a cognitive and systemic approach using parts work or Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy;
• a body-awareness and mindfulness-based approach using Somatic Psychotherapy and Polyvagal Theory; and
• a depth-oriented and relational approach using Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Intersubjectivity Theory.

Loredana is further informed in her trauma work by narrative therapy, trauma-informed care awareness and sensitivity; childhood and lifespan developmental theory; and attachment theory and its implications in recovery from trauma.

Areas of Interests: Complex trauma / C-PTSD, vicarious trauma, attachment wounds, dissociation, grief and loss, chronic pain and chronic health conditions.

“Change and healing are possible… through cultivating supportive conditions.”