Christine Deftereos

Christine Deftereos is a Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst and Accredited Mental Health Social Worker. They are committed to providing best-practice trauma-informed care in a confidential, sensitive and validating therapeutic space.

They provide a safe and non-judgemental environment for clients to share their lived experiences. In therapy, Christine allows clients to explore various ways of being and living, including understanding their coping mechanisms.

They are knowledgeable about both strength-based and maladaptive defence mechanisms that have developed over time. Christine devotes therapeutic space to helping clients understand their experiences and relationships with others, find meaning in those experiences, build self-knowledge, awareness, compassion, and self-acceptance.