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Gentle, relational therapy, helping empathic women reduce emotional discomfort, find their voice, and feel safe to be themselves.

Offering in person appointments in Canterbury, Sydney and online across Australia.

Welcome to Carmel Catanuto Psychotherapy and Counselling

You’ve spent years holding it all together, managing emotions silently, staying strong for others, or walking on eggshells just to keep the peace.

On the outside, you are successful and capable. But inside, it’s a different story. You feel overwhelmed, anxious, or emotionally shut down. You overthink, over give, and quietly carry the weight of relationships that leave you feeling invisible or not enough.

I work with women who are sensitive, empathic and insightful, but are tired of struggling emotionally. Maybe you’ve tried therapy before, read the self-help books, done the work. But nothing’s quite reached the deeper patterns, the ones that keep showing up in your relationships, in your self-talk, in the way you abandon yourself to keep others happy.

This is where our work begins.

Therapy with me is not surface-level or strategy-based. It’s gentle, embodied, and relational.

We move at your pace. We slow down enough to notice what’s happening in the moment, in your body, your breath, your emotions, so that the change you long for isn’t just understood but felt.

And that’s when something truly shifts.

woman sitting by a lake on a sunny day

Come home to yourself.

In our sessions, you’ll be supported to:

  • Understand long-held patterns shaped by past relationships
  • Build emotional safety, regulation, and inner stability
  • Reclaim parts of yourself that were silenced, dismissed, or hidden
  • Explore boundaries, self-expression, and what it means to take up space
  • Learn how to stay connected to yourself, even in challenging moments

This is therapy that meets you where you are. With care. With deep respect for the sensitivity and strength you carry.

You don’t need to keep holding everything on your own.

If you’re ready to explore a more grounded, embodied, and connected way of being, I’d be honoured to walk alongside you.

Hi, I’m Carmel

I’m a caring, gentle and authentic psychotherapist in Sydney.

I’m a non-judgemental therapist who will allow you the space to grow at your own pace.

I’m trained in several effective methods of therapy, which focus on transformation at a deep level.

Once you get past the negative feelings you have about yourself, you’ll be amazed at how good you feel and how much better people will treat you. I will listen deeply to you as I assist you in overcoming the pain of your past to help you become who you truly are at your core — a loveable person.

Carmel Catanuto

You Deserve Better

If you resonate with me and my approach, Contact me for a free, no-obligation, 15-minute phone call. We’ll discuss your problems, and I will let you know how I can help. If we decide to work together, we’ll book a therapy session in my Canterbury office or via video conference.