- Psychodynamic focus
- Family and relationship help
- Speaks English and Italian
About Velda
Velda Morisco is a psychodynamic psychotherapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She moved to Australia from Europe and speaks English and Italian. Her work focuses on relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, depression and coping with major life changes.
Velda uses a psychodynamic approach that looks at how past experiences shape present behaviour. Sessions are collaborative and aim to help people understand patterns that repeat in relationships and family life. She pays attention to transgenerational trauma and how family history affects current struggles.
Having lived and worked across Asia and Australia, Velda brings a multicultural perspective to her practice. She understands the emotional challenge of settling in a new country and the ways that migration can affect family roles and identity. This background informs how she supports people dealing with immigration issues and multicultural concerns.
Her clinical background includes many years in youth and family therapy settings and work with adoption and foster care matters. Velda also helps people facing divorce and separation, infidelity, commitment issues and family of origin problems. Her experience includes addressing guilt, shame and young adult issues.
Velda holds a Bachelor of Nursing and a Master of Mental Health in Psychotherapy and is registered with PACFA. She receives regular supervision and continues professional development. Her online sessions are offered in English and Italian and use Zoom.
Psychodynamic care and online therapy
Velda uses psychodynamic work to help people understand how earlier relationships shape current family and relationship patterns. This approach looks at recurring feelings, unconscious influences and long-standing dynamics so clients can make different choices in their relationships. It is often helpful for issues such as transgenerational trauma, family of origin problems and difficulties that follow major life transitions.She also draws on her experience with multicultural adjustment to support people navigating identity and migration-related stresses. That perspective helps when families are negotiating different cultural expectations or when some members adjust to a new country in different ways.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods suit their needs, goals and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can be reviewed as therapy progresses.
Her online sessions are conducted using Zoom and are available in English and Italian. If you want to know what session options are currently offered, confirm them before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
25+ years
Listed in
Australia
Languages
English, Italian
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, depression and coping with life changes. Additional areas include adoption and foster care, immigration concerns and young adult issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is psychodynamic, focusing on how past experiences shape current feelings and behaviour. Sessions aim to uncover patterns and make them easier to change through collaborative dialogue.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
She has 25 years of experience and many years working in youth and family therapy settings. Her work includes addressing transgenerational trauma and multicultural adjustment.
What credentials and location apply?
She is registered with PACFA and is based in Australia. Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Nursing and a Master of Mental Health in Psychotherapy.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Italian.
Can people outside Australia work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does cost and payment work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I do to start working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session according to therapist availability.