About Ainsley
Ainsley Cullen is an AASW social worker with 22 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges and low self esteem. She works with issues such as depression, addictions, relationship concerns, trauma and intimacy-related problems. She also helps with sleeping and eating difficulties, anger, career changes and ADHD related struggles.
Ainsley sees each person as the expert on their own life. She uses that view to build practical steps that fit daily life.
How Ainsley works
Sessions focus on small, manageable changes and on recognising strengths already present. She aims to make the process feel steady and doable. Her background includes long experience in clinical therapy alongside hypnotherapy work over many years.
That combination gives her multiple ways to help with motivation, confidence and coping with loss. She draws on approaches that suit each person rather than a single method. In therapy Ainsley applies attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and uses client-centred methods to keep the work focused on the person's goals.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to notice thoughts and actions that keep problems going. Emotionally-Focused and existential approaches help with feelings, meaning, and facing life changes. Sessions are offered in English to people in Australia and take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
The subscription model can be cancelled at any time and sessions are scheduled around therapist availability.
Ainsley lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Ainsley works with
The areas below are the ones Ainsley selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Therapeutic approaches and online options
Ainsley uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. This helps when recurring trust, closeness or separation issues cause ongoing distress. She also draws on client-centred therapy which keeps the focus on the person's goals and lived experience, offering a respectful, non-judgemental space to talk through problems. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with more effective ways of coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their needs, goals and preferences. That may mean combining approaches over time and checking in regularly about what is helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less data and can be easier during a short break. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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