About the work

Therapy as orientation,
not instruction

I work with individual adults across a broad range of experience. The work is unhurried, integrative, and shaped by what you bring.

01

Relational

Therapy happens in relationship. You bring yourself, that's enough to begin. I bring who I am and what I know. Together we'll be present to what unfolds between us, and let the work take the shape it needs.

02

Grounded & Contextual

Your story doesn't begin in the consulting room. We work with what's actually happening in your life — the contexts, relationships and conditions that shape how you experience things.

03

Unhurried

Real change rarely happens in a linear sequence. We take the time the work requires, and at a pace that actually allows it.

Wayfinding doesn't necessarily mean knowing where you're going. It's a practice of coming home to yourself and the terrain that is your life.
A large moss-covered tree photographed from below in black and white

still here, after everything

Richard Tronson, psychotherapist, outdoors in bushland
The practitioner

A human before
a therapist

I'm Richard Tronson. Before training as a psychotherapist, I spent years facilitating movement, community wellbeing, and self-inquiry. Those roots inform how I work. I bring a curious and imaginative mind, and a depth of feeling and presence.

I'm interested in the whole terrain of a life: what hurts, and the complex patterns of history, culture, body and longing that shape how a person finds their way. My work draws on psychology, embodiment, relationship, ritual, and the wider more-than-human world. All of that is in service of one thing: being with you in yours.

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What I offer

Individual psychotherapy for adults — in person in Melbourne, or online across Australia and the world. Open-ended weekly or fortnightly sessions, ongoing or short-term as makes sense. The work spans a broad range of experience:

  1. Anxiety & stress

    Working underneath chronic worry, stress responses, and the patterns that keep them in place.

  2. Life transitions & identity

    The thresholds where a former self no longer fits.

  3. Grief & loss

    Bereavement, but also the quieter losses — of capacity, of relationship, of the life you had imagined.

  4. Trauma & difficulty

    Trauma-informed, integrative work for the experiences that don't yet have words, or that words alone haven't reached.

Getting started

How it begins

There is no application. The first step is reaching out. I'll take the time to understand your situation carefully before we begin.

  1. Reach out

    Reach out however feels easiest. Send me a message, or arrange a call. A few words is enough to begin.

  2. A first conversation

    A short call to hear what's happening for you, answer any questions, and see whether working together feels right.

  3. Take it from there

    If we decide to begin, I'll complete a short intake to understand your background and needs. From there, we book a first session, and the pace and shape of the work emerges between us.

You don't need to explain everything at once.

Get in touch

You're welcome
to reach out

Send a message, or book a free 20-minute call. Whichever feels easier.

Location Melbourne, Victoria
Sessions In person & online
Email hello@wayfindingpractice.com.au

I'll be in touch within two business days.

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