- Richard Schwartz
Mr Oliver Brooke
Counsellor, Psychotherapist
Oliver Brooke - Certified IFS Therapist and IFS-I Clinical Consultant
Mundaring, WA 6063
In Person + Online Therapy Australia-wide
Philosophy & Vision
I believe therapy is about relationship. The relationship between the therapist and the client and the relationship between the client and the parts of their personality.
Good therapy is about attachment. A good therapist will attune to their client and offer compassionate witnessing to all of their inner experience.
A good therapist will be on their own path of healing and have deep experience of their own parts of their personality. They will know their internal landscape and have experience sitting with and holding both suffering and joy.
My people are those wanting to deeply connect with their psyche and body, to heal past wounds from their own lifetime, and the legacies of their ancestors.
Someone who is opening to their inner world and is looking for an experienced guide to hold space as they continue build relationships with their parts and move towards healing.
Services
Oliver offers ONLINE IFS therapy and supervision over Zoom.
Oliver accepts clients from anywhere in Australia. He welcomes all parts of all people.
Oliver runs a group IFS Therapy practice called Oliver Brooke & Co.
If Oliver does not have availability, you will be matched with one of our experienced therapists.
Areas of Interest
Accreditations
- Master of Counselling - 2018 - Murdoch University
- Bachelor of Science (Psychology) - 2012 - Curtin University
- Internal Family Systems Therapy (Level 1) - 2021 - IFS Institute
- Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist - 2022 - IFS Institute
- Internal Family Systems Therapy (Level 2) - 2023 - IFS Institute
- IFS-I Approved Clinical Consultant - 2025 - IFS Institute
- Internal Family Systems Therapy (Level 3) - 2025 - IFS Institute
Modalities
Art Therapy - Attachment Theory - Creative Arts Therapy - Inner Child - Internal Family Systems - Person Centred - Soul Centred Psychotherapy - Systems Theory - Transpersonal - Trauma-Informed
Therapy Approach
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is systemic, transformational, trauma-informed, and evidence-based psychotherapy for emotional well being. In IFS Therapy we work with your internal personality system, listening deeply to your internal family system (the parts of your personality) and building relationships internally to understand, validate and honor your inner family. In doing so we help to foster internal trust which can lead to your system opening up to explore some of the underlying experiences which formed your personality (gifts and burdens) in early childhood.
Professional Associations
- Australian Counselling Association - Level 4
Practice Locations
Suite 13 - 3 Nichols Street
Mundaring WA 6063
Online
Melbourne VIC 3000
Appointments
Please contact Oliver directly by email to book an appointment.
His working days are Monday - Friday 9:15 am - 5:15 pm AWST.
Fees & Insurance
Oliver's fee is $162 for a 60 minute IFS Session and $197 for 60 minutes IFS Supervision session.
Other therapists at Oliver Brooke & Co charge - $140 - $162 per hour for IFS Therapy.
Payment Options
Payment is made by Halaxy's automatic payment system. All information is provided in the Client Intake form. An invoice will be sent after your session.
Contact Oliver
Please contact reception to make an appointment
A conversation with Oliver Brooke
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My personal experience of being supported by a counselling professional. Experiencing anxiety and depression as a young person led me to access a counsellor. It was my first experience with an adult who listened to me without judgment. In later years the declining health of my mother to breast cancer led me back into therapy to understand my grief and loss. Both these experiences were supportive and transformational.
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Carl Rogers's Person-Centered (PC) philosophy has had the greatest influence on my professional style. I intentionally foster an attitude of positive regard, acceptance, non-judgment, empathy, and understanding towards the people I am lucky enough to journey with.
Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems Theory has had the second greatest impact on my professional work. The IFS model fits well with Roger's philosophy and the idea of the Self in IFS has very similar qualities which Roger's described such as unconditional positive regard and compassion. IFS feels intuitive to me and I think its theory of the personality of multiplicity, systems thinking and the Self is the most accurate in Psychology. -
I am interested in people discovering that they are already whole. That inside them is a core essence that is indestructible and ever-present. I love the experience in therapy when someone taps into their true Self and instantly they perceive parts of themselves they hated a moment ago with deep compassion and understanding.
We are told so often that we are responsible for our mental health and if we just did x, y or z we would feel ok. What I am most interested in is that IFS offers an alternative to this dogma. It offers a way of being with all of our parts and welcoming all of their thoughts feelings and behaviors with compassion and curiosity. Then from there, the healing happens. -
I combine Internal Family Systems Therapy and Person-centered therapy. I am nearly an IFS purist as I have trained in a dozen models and I have found that IFS is by far the most effective and transformational. If you have skeptical parts I welcome them, I suggest going to youtube and watching an IFS session in action or directly experiencing one with me.
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The first time they access their Self and be with a part of them in a way they have never experienced before. It is transformational.
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I believe I can only take my clients as far as I have gone myself. I am of the view that as therapists we have to practice what we preach. So I regularly see my own IFS therapist. It has given me a way of being with my own internal system in a completely new way. I am no longer trying to tame or remove parts of myself that other parts of me don't like. I am now able to be with them with curiosity, compassion, and openness. And in the light of my awareness, they soften and take on new and valuable roles for me. I have become more connected to my internal system in all ways. More connected to others. And I feel a deep sense of purpose and value in my life. I have overcome most of my addictions and no longer feel crippled by anxiety. I have also released some burdens from my traumatised parts, this is an ongoing recovery journey for me.
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The opportunity to guide people into greater connection with themselves and others to give back what I have gained from therapy myself.
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Of course.
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Thinking that the parts of us which are anxious, angry, addicted, etc are the problem. They aren't the problem, the problem is the burdens they carry. If we fight against the parts of people we fight against people. We need to collectively release the burdens from our internal and external communities, not the people.
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No bad parts - Richard Schwartz