Elke Hupfauf - Psychologist & Relationship Therapist
Open, Friendly, Non-Judgemental
Not taking New Clients, to review in Sept prev clients welcome to contact
Updated 17/7/2025
Services Provided
I work with individuals, couples, and polyamorous or open relationship configurations.
Individuals
We can work together to understand how particular issues are impacting on you and reducing your ability for satisfying relationships with others. Common issues I work with include:
LGBTQIA+ related issues:
- Dealing with a binary focused, cis-genderistic, heteronormative, and at times an unkind society
- Coming out (letting in) process
- Minority stress
- Intersectionality
- Internalised Homo/Trans/Bi Phobia
- Exploring sexuality
- Gender questioning/exploring
- Transitioning
- Resilience
- IVF and family planning
Other Issues:
- Trauma, particularly relational trauma and complex trauma
- Sexual trauma
- Mental health issues, particularly anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, stress related factors, etc
- Sex worker issues
I am open to working with anything that impacts on having satisfying connections with others
Relationships
We can work together to develop fulfilling and meaningful relationships, whether intimate or otherwise. I can also help with how to end relationships well.
- I believe it is important to recognise the nuances within LGBTQIA+ relationships minus the heteronorming, cis and binary notions
- How LGBTQIA+ minority stress can interfere with relational connections between partners
- Understanding how relational patterns can trap us into poor communication between partners and unsatisfying relationships
- Understanding how anxiety and trauma, particularly relational trauma and sexual trauma, can interfere with deep and fulfilling connections between partners
- Understanding how mental health issues can interfere with clear communication between partners, and lead to relational stress
- Assist with developing better communication between partners to reduce conflict
- Creating satisfying and nourishing open and polyamorous relationships
- Ending a relationship with less conflict
Actually, I will work with anything that is relationship counselling related
Areas of Special Interest
Depression, Anxiety & Other mental health issues
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Trauma & PTSD
I welcome individuals and couples who present with Trauma, Complex Trauma, Sexual Trauma, and PTSD. I view trauma presentations and PTSD from a psychoneurobiological perspective utilising the following trauma informed approaches:
- Trauma Focused Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
- Sensorimotor (body oriented) Psychotherapy techniques
Sexual Trauma
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