Tamar Hopkins is a PACFA Reg.Certified Practising Gestalt Psychotherapist with a private clinical practice in Carlton. She welcomes clients from all ethnic, cultural and racial backgrounds, gender identities, neurodiversities, abilities and sexualities.

With a history in community and public interest lawyering and a PhD in law, Tamar has a particular (but not exclusive) interest in working as a psychotherapist to support lawyers and humanitarian workers.

Tamar is interested in the intersection of race, gender, power, status, colonisation, privilege, ablism and trauma and how these contexts interact with our inner experience and self-judgment.

Tamar is a warm, respectful, and ethical practitioner who works inclusively with her clients to build self-compassion, awareness and deepen acceptance.

Tamar seeks to create a non-judgemental, supportive environment that allows clients to safely explore themselves and the relational patterns and conditions that impact their lives.

As well as one-on-one work, Tamar is interested in working with groups to increase awareness, support and solidarity in structurally challenging social and political working environments.

She currently runs reflective practice for Asylum Seeker Lawyers and Humanitarian workers at the ASRC.

Qualifications: BSc/LLB (ANU), PhD (Law) (UNSW), Advanced Clinical Training in Relational Gestalt Psychotherapy (GTA - Melbourne).

Tamar’s clinical practice is supported by her clinical supervisor Nicole van Os, her group supervision teams and her mentor Dr Radhika Santhanam-Martin.