About Bernadette
Bernadette Eze is an AASW-accredited social worker with 14 years of practical experience in Australia. She supports people who are struggling with low mood, anxiety, relationship problems, grief and loss, and difficulties with self-esteem. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and straightforward.
Bernadette creates a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about what matters most to them. Sessions focus on building understanding and small, realistic changes rather than overwhelming tasks.
How Bernadette works
She listens first and then works with each person to set clear, achievable goals. Her work often covers life transitions, stress, coping after trauma, addiction concerns, and issues around intimacy and attachment. She also offers support for more specific challenges such as abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, carer stress, and navigating chronic illness or cancer-related concerns.
Bernadette draws on a range of approaches such as acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-informed work, cognitive strategies and client-centred listening. She tailors these methods to match each person’s aims and pace. Sessions are practical and focused on skills people can use between meetings.
Conversations can be held in English or Igbo. People access sessions by using the platform’s Start Therapy flow, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a time that suits both parties.
Bernadette lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Bernadette works with
The areas below are the ones Bernadette selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English, Igbo |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small values-driven actions despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is often used for anxiety, depression and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how past bonds shape current reactions; it can help with intimacy, attachment issues and communication problems.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will ask about goals, personal preferences and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will test approaches and adjust the plan so it fits the person’s needs and pace.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face style conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat or messaging can help people fit therapy into a busy day and make it easier to record thoughts between meetings. These options make it simpler to keep work and family commitments while accessing a qualified therapist.
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