Natalia Ranson. Clinical Psychologist.

Advanced Schema Therapist, Supervisor-Trainer.

Integrative Trauma Psychotherapy.

My Approach

There is inevitably an implicit power dynamic in working with any ‘help provider’. However, my experience has reinforced that the ultimate ‘answers’ in any person’s healing process are held and contained within the individual themselves. Therefore, the therapy and supervision I offer endeavours to be authentically collaborative and individually tailored, drawing on the knowledge, awareness, wisdom and needs of you as the client. Then, in response, offering traditional and innovative relational brain•mind•body approaches to enhance experiences of wholeness and connection.

“Psychologists usually try to help people use insight and understanding to manage their behaviour. However, neuroscience research shows that very few psychological problems are the result of defects in understanding; most originate in pressures from deeper regions in the brain that drive perception and attention. When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signalling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.”

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

Meet Lia

  • Natalia Ranson

    Preferred name Lia

    Pronouns She/Her

    B Sci (Psych) (Hons), MPsych (Clin)

    AHPRA No. PSY0001705913

  • I am a Clinical Psychologist based in Western Sydney, Australia. I am a Board-approved supervisor with AHPRA and an Advanced Schema Therapist, Supervisor-Trainer. I am passionate about supporting those in care provider roles and with living legacies of trauma in all its forms.

    My primary interest is working with individuals of all ages with childhood trauma histories. My work most often focuses on therapy for therapists, parents/carers seeking to break the transmission processes from intergenerational trauma and associated relational patterns, mothers and fathers (including those thinking about or preparing to be) navigating the pre- and post-natal period, Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and other Dissociative Disorders, and those identifying as neurodivergent (particularly autism spectrum conditions) or lgbtqia+.

    I work from a relational, contextual and strength-based perspective, integrating systemic, attachment and trauma-specific theories and techniques.

    My approaches include: Polyvagal-Informed Therapies, Parts Work (informed by a flexible integration of structural dissociation theory, ego state therapy, internal family systems and schema therapy), Dialogical Practice/Family Therapy, Circle of Security Parenting, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), and body-based approaches including Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for trauma.

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Services Offered

  • Therapy

  • Supervision

  • Schema Therapy Tape Rating

  • Training

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Therapy for Therapists

I hold a specific interest for providing a space for other therapists hoping to either start or deepen their personal self-reflection and healing.

This includes offering Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), a deeply transformative yet gentle approach. DBR can assist in igniting innate healing processes around very early wounding that can be more difficult to access with other approaches working at higher regions of the brain.

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