Pratyusha Sonie Jawalkar (she/her)
Registered Psychologist
M Psych; PG Dip Sci (Health Psych); BA-BHSc; MAAPi
Works with adolescents aged 13+ and adults, offering collaborative, responsive, and empathetic support across a wide range of mental health and life challenges.
Sonie has particular interests in trauma and stress, perinatal mental health, chronic health issues, interpersonal difficulties, multicultural mental health, neurodivergence, and affirming support for LGBTQIA+ and CALD clients.
About Sonie
Sonie is a registered Psychologist with strong set of values and passion for helping individuals who are facing various life challenges. She enjoys working with adolescents (13+) and adults, culturally and linguistically diverse, gender and sexuality diverse and individuals from all walks of life. She aims to decrease suffering and improve functioning of individuals by providing collaborative, responsive, empathetic and evidence-based intervention. She is focused on helping her clients understand their own emotions and behaviours while using a mix of cognitive behavioural, ACT, problem focused, DBT, relaxation, schema therapy and mindfulness based approaches.
Sonie has experience working in community health and private practice delivering interventions for a wide range of mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, grief and loss, domestic violence issues, interpersonal difficulties, self-esteem, chronic illness, health anxiety, pain management, stress, workplace issues and assertiveness. She is multilingual and speaks in English, Hindi and a couple of other Indian languages.
Works with
Adolescents 13+ and adults
Offers
Therapy
Appointments
In-person Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Telehealth Friday
Approach
Collaborative, empathetic, evidence-based
Areas of interest
Trauma and stress, perinatal mental health, chronic health issues, interpersonal difficulties, multicultural mental health, neurodivergence, LGBTQIA+ and CALD affirming support
Languages
English, Hindi, and other Indian languages

