Tunteeya Yamaoka

Tunteeya Yamaoka is an AHPRA-registered clinician with ten years' experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. She speaks English and Japanese and brings a direct, kind style to sessions. Her aim is to help people live with more purpose and move forward from what holds them back.

Tunteeya is straightforward and honest in her approach. She may say things that are hard to hear, but does so from a place of kindness. She encourages people to bring a full range of emotions into the room and to notice that life is not only black and white.

Her background includes work in private practice, hospitals, universities and corporate settings. She has supported people with anxiety, perfectionism, trauma, OCD and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Travel and a mixed cultural identity influence how she understands clients from varied backgrounds.

In sessions she uses practical conversation and clear feedback to help people see patterns and try different ways of responding. She draws on approaches that focus on thoughts, emotions and values to help people take meaningful steps forward. People looking for coaching around life changes or career direction can also explore those goals with her.

Outside work she enjoys drawing, painting, running and crocheting, and she reads cosy fiction and exercises at the gym. These personal interests shape a down-to-earth, relatable style in sessions.

How her approaches can work in online therapy

Tunteeya uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside Client-Centred ideas. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that matter, which can help with anxiety, avoidance and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relational patterns and how they affect current relationships, useful for communication problems and feelings of abandonment. Client-Centred work emphasises empathy and a non-judgemental stance, giving space for people to speak freely and discover their own solutions.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Tunteeya will work collaboratively to decide which approaches fit a person's goals and preferences, and adapt techniques as those goals shift. The early sessions often focus on practical steps, testing what helps and what doesn't.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week by reducing travel time and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people access a therapist who understands cross-cultural issues or who speaks Japanese, while keeping sessions aligned with day-to-day routines.