A gentle, nurturing space to reclaim your authentic self.
Vanessa Price Clinical Psychologist & Psychotherapist
About Me
I’m Vanessa. My work is guided by warmth, presence, and a deep respect for the inner worlds we each carry. I hold space for the parts of you that have long felt unseen or unheard, offering a grounded, compassionate place to explore what it means to return to yourself.
Early in my career, I spent many years supporting people experiencing psychosis. During this time, I trained extensively in the Maastricht Hearing Voices framework and completed my thesis in this area. This shaped my belief that every experience — every feeling, every story, every voice within — carries meaning. When met with curiosity instead of fear, these experiences can reveal profound insight and resilience.
My practice is shaped by an Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed approach. I walk alongside you as you meet the many “parts” that make up your inner landscape, gently supporting you to loosen the layers of masking, expectation, and self-protection. This work isn’t about becoming someone new — it’s about coming home to who you’ve always been.
Across more than 20 years in mental health and community settings, I’ve supported adults through transitions, trauma, identity work, burnout, and the quieter forms of distress that often surface in sensitive, deeply feeling people. My intention is to offer a space where you can move at your own pace, be fully yourself, and feel deeply understood, revealing what's been waiting within.
Away from sessions, I find nourishment in nature, creative expression, and the companionship of animals — simple, grounding experiences that remind me of the steady rhythms of healing and being human.
The landscape we explore
In our sessions, we explore the inner terrain of your life—its steady places, its tender edges, and the parts that have long waited for space to breathe. Some moments feel clear and spacious; others feel shadowed or tangled. All of it is welcome here.
This work is for those who long to understand themselves more deeply, to be seen without masks, and to find a sense of inner steadiness that feels like coming home. Together, we move at a pace that feels safe and grounded, guided by curiosity, compassion, and the wisdom that already lives within you.
I offer presence, guidance, and attunement. You bring your lived experience, your sensitivity, your questions, and the parts of you that are ready to be met. Along the way, you may rediscover strengths you forgot you had, name truths that have gone unspoken, and connect more fully with the self beneath the layers.
This is gentle work. Deep work. Human work.
A returning to what has been quietly waiting inside you.
A Home for all Hearts Seeking Depth
I welcome anyone drawn to inner work, reflection, and a gentler, more soulful way of being with themselves. And while this space is open to all, I am especially aligned with those who feel the world with a little extra depth — the intuitive ones, the quiet observers, the deep thinkers, the creatives, and the people who sense what others often overlook.
Many of the people I support are neurodivergent (ADHDer, Autistic, AuDHDer, Highly Sensitive – HSP), and have spent years masking parts of themselves to fit into spaces that never felt like home. Here, these traits aren’t pathologised — they’re honoured as part of your inner compass, guiding you with sensitivity, insight, and a richly textured inner world.
Together, we create space for the parts of you that have been carrying tension, perfectionism, self-doubt, or the quiet responsibility of holding everything together. In this work, the layers you’ve gathered over time can gently soften, making room for your truest self to emerge — steady, grounded, and wholly your own.
I also support health professionals and carers experiencing burnout — those who have spent years pouring their energy into others, often at the expense of their own wellbeing. This is a place to reconnect with your own rhythm, restore balance, and remember that your heart matters, too.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Psychology (Social Science)
Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology
Master of Psychology (Clinical)
Therapeutic Modalities
My approach is grounded in respect for the wisdom of the inner world. I create a slow, relational space where you can meet your experiences with curiosity, care, and attuned presence.
I am trained in evidence-based modalities such as CBT, ACT, DBT, and Schema Therapy, and may draw on aspects of these when they support safety or regulation. My primary focus, however, is a depth-oriented, somatically informed practice that honours the full complexity of your inner world.
Guided by Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Jungian perspectives, we explore the many “parts” within — protectors, wounded parts, critical voices, people-pleasing tendencies, dissociated aspects, and quiet intuitive or creative wisdom. Each part is welcomed as a messenger, carrying insight, unmet needs, and the potential for integration.
The body often holds the stories the mind cannot always speak. With gentle presence and somatic awareness, we honour these experiences, noticing how different parts of yourself carry tension, protection, and wisdom. Drawing on IFS and Jungian-informed approaches, we explore these inner landscapes with curiosity and care, fostering grounding, regulation, and a deeper sense of wholeness.
I hold a trauma-informed and neuroaffirming lens. You are invited to show up however feels safest — moving, fidgeting, sitting in silence, or bringing comfort objects. Spirituality in whatever form is meaningful to you is also welcome.
This is a space of warmth, care, and deep respect for your story. Your pace, boundaries, and inner wisdom guide the work, allowing life’s layers to soften and a more authentic, connected, and integrated sense of self to gently emerge.
Sessions & Availability
Online Only
All sessions are offered via secure video link up, allowing you to connect from the comfort of your own space.
60-Minute Sessions – $250
The current Medicare rebate for clinical psychology is $145.25, making the out-of-pocket cost $104.75 per session.
Availability
Appointments are available Monday to Thursday, 2pm–6pm, creating a calm, focused space for our work together.
Free 15-Minute Consultation
This brief session allows us to connect and ensure we’re the right fit before beginning our journey.
Rebates & Funding
Medicare rebates, Private health insurance & NDIS Funding (self managed only)
Wildflower Places
Wildflower Places are a small number of reduced-fee therapy spaces offered each year, created to honour the natural ebb and flow of life’s seasons. These places are offered with respect, dignity, and care. At present, all spaces are filled.
As a sole practitioner in private practice, I am not able to provide crisis support or work with individuals experiencing acute mental health issues, severe trauma, or eating disorders.
If you are in need of immediate support, please reach out to one of the following services, who are available to help 24/7:
Lifeline: 13 11 14
Beyond Blue: 1300 224 636
Emergency Services: 000
NSW Mental Health Line: 1800 011 511
You are not alone, help is available.
Important Information
Begin your Journey
My online booking system is open to existing clients only.
If you feel drawn to this work, you’re warmly invited to reach to me via email. From there, we can arrange a free 15-minute phone consultation—a gentle first step to connect, ask questions, and sense whether working together feels right for you.
Contact
Email: hello@vanessapriceclinpsych.com.au
Ph: 0498 869 948
Fax: (02) 9072 9682
Postal address: PO BOX 129, Mayfield, NSW, 2304
Held by Country in Newcastle, connected with fellow wanderers across Australia.
We honour the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, the traditional custodians of this land, and pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging. We celebrate the enduring connection to Country, culture, and community.
All hearts are welcome here, and we embrace and celebrate LGBTIQ diversity.
Get in touch
Wild Within Studio
A quiet corner of my work where creativity and care meet. Wild Within Studio is a place for gentle, heartfelt resources — small offerings made to steady the nervous system, nourish the inner world, and create little pockets of stillness in the midst of everyday life. Each printable is shared freely, with warmth and openness, so you can take whatever supports you, in your own way and in your own time.
While these resources are freely available, you’re warmly invited to support the Westerman Jilya Institute, an organisation doing extraordinary work to grow a powerful movement of Indigenous Psychologists across Australia. Jilya is building an unstoppable “army” of First Nations clinicians — strengthening communities, expanding access to culturally grounded care, and shaping the future of mental health in ways that honour wisdom, strength, and sovereignty.
If my work has been meaningful to you, a contribution to Jilya is a beautiful way to pass that care forward and support this powerful, future-shaping work.
Note: Resources from Wild Within Studio are shared with care to support gentle self-reflection and wellbeing. They are not intended to replace therapy or professional mental health care.
Nourish Your Wild Within Free Resources
The Wild Within Self Care Wheel
Like the seasons, we move through cycles of rest, growth, and renewal. The Wild Within Wheel helps you honour your rhythm and care for all that you are.
Soulful Smartphone Wallpapers
These free wallpapers are designed to help you pause, connect with your inner landscape, and carry warmth and ease through your day. Suitable for most smartphones.
Sunlit Whispers Affirmation Cards
A tender collection of 12 printable affirmation cards, created to gently nurture the sensitive hearts within — offering pauses of reflection, calm, and self-compassion for those who feel the world a little more deeply.
Whispers for the Soul Journalling Cards
A tender collection of 12 printable reflection cards, created to guide you inward — inviting stillness, curiosity, and gentle connection with your inner world.
The Wild Within Reflection Journal
The Wild Within Weekly Journal is a printable 7-day reflection journal designed for anyone drawn to exploring their inner world with curiosity, presence, and care.
Printable Posters
I’ve created two soulful posters as quiet reminders for the path inward.
All Parts are Welcome and Meet yourself with curiosity and kindness — small, simple offerings to help you pause, breathe, and come home to yourself.
Wild Within Collage Ritual
The Wild Within Collage Ritual opens a quiet doorway into your inner world — a place where creativity meets reflection, and where images help reveal what words sometimes cannot.
The Wild Within Parts Map
A tender guide for meeting the many inner parts that make up your inner world. Inspired by IFS, this map helps you gently trace the contours of your inner landscape — the protectors, the tender ones, the fierce ones, the quiet wisdom beneath it all. It’s an invitation to listen inward, soften toward yourself, and honour the truths that rise when we meet ourselves with compassion.
This Book Club is a little fireside circle on the page — a space where I share the books that have touched my heart, stirred my imagination, and shaped my therapeutic approach. Wander through, take what resonates, and let these stories accompany you on your own inner journey.
Some of the books in this space draw from spiritual or mystic traditions, but I include them because their wisdom feels universal — grounded in compassion, presence, and feminine insight rather than doctrine. They speak to the deeper currents that run beneath everyday life, and invite us into a gentler, more soulful way of being
