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

Tamar is a warm, respectful, non-judgemental and ethical therapist who works inclusively with her clients to build self-compassion, awareness, acceptance and support.

Healing takes place when we find a safe place to share and explore our stories, our experiences and ourselves with another.  ‘We find and create our story in the telling of it to another person and that act is the same as the creative construction of the self.’(Wheeler, 1997, p. 123).

Self-acceptance is a radical act of change in our attitude towards ourselves.  If we can accept and allow all parts of us, our managerial parts, our playful, childlike, fearful, anxious sometimes destructive parts, we can start to gain a fuller understanding of ourselves and what it is that is motivating us. 

Tamar is interested in working with people experiencing anxiety, stuckness, trauma, discrimination, intergenerational trauma, injustice, erasure, colonisation, addiction, burnout, perfectionism, identity, neurodiversity, relationship and parenting issues.

Tamar’s practice includes:

·      working with individuals as a psychotherapist;

·      external supervision;

·      working with teams as reflective practice facilitator.

Tamar offers individual psychotherapy as well as group reflective practice to increase awareness, support and solidarity in challenging social and political working environments.

She currently runs reflective practice at the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre, Fitzroy Legal Service, Northern Community Legal Service and Victoria Legal Aid.

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

Tamar practised law in the ACT from 2000-2003 and in Victoria from 2004-2016 working primarily as a community lawyer. In 2010 she was awarded LIV Community Lawyer of the Year and in 2023, the Legal Research Awards Prize for Best PhD.  In 2022 Tamar commenced training to become a psychotherapist. Tamar’s clinical practice is supported by her clinical supervisor Nicole van Os, her group supervision team and her mentor Dr Radhika Santhanam-Martin.