Tunteeya Yamaoka, AHPRA

Tunteeya Yamaoka brings a direct yet compassionate style to her therapeutic work, offering honest feedback delivered from a place of genuine care. She encourages clients to express a full range of emotions while exploring how life often sits between extremes rather than in black and white. By acknowledging difficult moments alongside times of light and laughter, she helps people notice the pain they carry and take practical steps toward a more purposeful life.

Across a decade of practice, Tunteeya has worked with children, teenagers, adults, and couples in private practice, clinical settings, public and private hospitals, universities, and corporate organisations. Her clinical experience includes supporting people with anxiety, perfectionism, trauma, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). She also focuses on relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and coaching for career and life transitions.

Her multicultural background - Japanese and Ghanaian heritage combined with Australian cultural identity - informs a practice that integrates Eastern and Western perspectives. Travel and exposure to diverse cultures have strengthened her ability to support people from varied backgrounds. She is registered with AHPRA, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.

Outside of clinical work she enjoys drawing, painting, running, crocheting, cozy fiction, and gym exercise. For information about in-person appointments in Melbourne, visit www.ikigaipsychology.com.au.