Sasha Jontof-Hutter

About

Sasha is a Registered Senior Clinical Psychologist. She is a Board Approved Supervisor and Registrar Program Principal Supervisor.

Sasha has extensive experience in various public and private mental health settings to provide individual and group therapy. When you meet Sasha, you can expect respect, curiosity, compassion, and a commitment to work with you from where you are now. Sasha believes that you don’t have to be ready, just willing to start.

Sasha aims at creating a compassionate and genuine therapy space where individuals feel safe and understood. She is attuned to what is and is not communicated by the clients, such that they can develop insights and awareness of their emotional needs and vulnerability. Sasha also helps clients work towards developing skills and strategies to regulate and manage emotions, improve interpersonal relationships, as well as build on our strengths to enhance emotional wellbeing.

Some of Sasha’s areas of interest include:

• Depression

• Anxiety

• Trauma, complex trauma and adverse life experiences

• Grief and loss

• Minority and cultural experiences

• Challenges related to LGBTIQA+

• Neurodivergence

• Stress

• Sleep

• Adjustment difficulties

• Helping manage the psychological side of chronic / acute health conditions

• Relationship stress and difficulties

• Life changes and decisions

Therapeutic Approaches

Sasha is influenced by a mix of therapy styles including both psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive behavioural approaches.

She has a warm and dynamic style, and she draws on

• Schema Therapy

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)

• Somatic and Emotion Focussed approaches

• Motivational interviewing