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Dayna Jaekel

Psychologist (pending AHPRA registration)

Master of Clinical Psychology, (final stages of training), Bond University

I feel immensely privileged to work as a therapist and to be entrusted with people’s stories. I strive to honour this by approaching each person with curiosity, respect, and openness.

 

My therapeutic style is rooted in compassion, and I aim to maintain a flexible, client-centred, and non-judgemental approach, creating space to understand each individual’s unique experiences, values, and goals.

 

I am passionate about helping people recognise the strength they already have within them, and supporting them in achieving meaningful change through tailored, evidence-based therapies.

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Clinical approach​

  • Client-centred, strengths-based, and grounded in compassion.

  • Empathetic, trauma-informed, and non-judgemental therapeutic style.

  • Committed to creating a safe and collaborative space for exploration and growth.

  • Draws on evidence-based modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Schema Therapy.

  • Tailors’ interventions to each individual’s unique needs, values, and goals.

  • Focuses on supporting meaningful, sustainable change.

  • Works primarily with adults.

 

Experience:

  • Provided client-centred, evidence-based psychological assessment and intervention to adults, children, and adolescents within a university clinic setting, across a range of presentations including anxiety, depression, emotion dysregulation, and stress management.

  • Experience working in hospital settings within the Acute Medical and Surgical team, providing psychological intervention for adults with mental health concerns in a medical context, including grief, coping and adjustment, trauma, depression, and anxiety.

  • Experience working in a correctional centre with adult men presenting with trauma, emotional dysregulation, anger and violence, risk management concerns, antisocial behaviours, and substance use difficulties.

 

Presentations​

  • Anxiety, panic, phobias, stress, and worry 

  • Mood disorders and depression

  • Anger and frustration

  • Body image issues

  • Self-esteem / confidence

  • Interpersonal issues and relationship difficulties

  • Trauma and processing difficult experiences

  • Sleep difficulties

  • Grief & loss

  • Chronic illness and pain

  • Emotion regulation difficulties

  • ADHD – support, not assessment 

  • Sexual difficulties

  • Drugs & alcohol

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