Private Psychological Services- Australia only
Evidence-informed, compassionate psychological care and telehealth therapy for children, teens, adults, and families.
Dr Rani Jacobs (PhD): Licensed Psychologist Australia
AHPRA Registration: PSY0001123237
Welcome.
For clients located across Australia, I offer private psychological services tailored to your individual, developmental, and clinical needs. As a registered psychologist in Australia (AHPRA: PSY0001123237) with specialized training in children and adolescents, and a PhD in Behavioral Psychology, I provide individualized, strength-based support that honors unique processing styles and neurodivergent experiences.
Areas of Focus:
I work with children, teens, young adults and adults navigating:
Neurosomatic and Complex Health Conditions:
Chronic pain including Migraine
Dysautonomia/POTS
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Fibromyalgia
Post-Concussive Syndrome
Anxiety and Stress:
Anxiety, Phobias
Obsessive compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Stress Management, Burnout
Important Practice Information:
Session Logistics: Virtual appointments are available across Australian time zones.
Fees & Rebates: Please reach out directly for information regarding session fees. Private health insurance rebates may be applicable depending on your provider and cover. Please note: Medicare rebates are not available for sessions conducted while I am based overseas.
Scope of Telehealth Services: Due to the international telehealth format, I do not accept clients who currently meet criteria for a Depressive Disorder or an Eating Disorder. For these conditions, in-person care or local multidisciplinary support is strongly recommended.
Australian time zone appointments available.
Please Note: Due to conducting sessions internationally via telehealth, I am not accepting clients who meet criteria for a depressive disorder, or an eating disorder. It is highly recommended that you find a local provider.
Contact me for information regarding fees. Private health rebates may be applicable, but I am not able to offer Medicare rebates for sessions that are conducted while I am overseas.
Health Coaching in chronic and complex health conditions
Navigating complex health challenges with evidence-informed mindset coaching, somatic integration, and nervous system support.
Navigating overwhelm and Reconnecting with yourself
Living with persistent health challenges can leave your nervous system stuck in high alert, carrying the overwhelming weight of appointments, conflicting advice, and relentless expectations. Over time, these conditions can begin to define how you view yourself.
Real, sustainable change starts from the inside out. Coaching offers a dedicated space to quiet the noise, shift your relationship with your symptoms, and help your nervous system move beyond survival mode. Together, we work to transition your health experience from something that defines you into something you are thoughtfully navigating—building clarity, self-compassion, and ease every step of the way.
Health Coaching can Support you to:
Attune to your body’s wisdom: Listen beneath the noise and respond to what your system truly needs.
Clarify your immediate priorities: Sift through overwhelm to focus on what matters most right now.
Align decisions with your values: Ground your health choices in your values, cultural perspectives, personal strengths and priorities.
Integrate guidance from your health team: Translate recommendations from your care team into sustainable, realistic habits that feel achievable.
Cultivate safety and ease: Practice nourishing habits that reduce stress and support your body’s natural healing capacity.
What to Expect:
Global Telehealth Accessibility: Virtual coaching sessions available across U.S., Australian, and international time zones.
Developmentally Tailored Support: Grounded in developmental psychology to ensure strategies are age-appropriate for teens, young adults, and adults.
Collaborative & Complementary Care: A safe, non-judgmental space designed to work alongside your existing medical team and treatment plan.
Health Professional Burnout
Mindset & Nervous System Support for Health Professionals & Caregivers
Evidence-informed coaching, mindfulness and somatic support for practitioners, clinicians, and caregivers navigating systemic stress, high-functioning burnout, and emotional fatigue.
The Reality of Health Professional Strain
Holding space for others—whether in medical settings, therapy rooms, or as a dedicated family caregiver—demands immense cognitive, emotional, and physical capacity.
When your daily work requires high empathy, constant vigilance, and complex decision-making, it is easy for your own nervous system to quietly slip into survival mode. You may find yourself experiencing:
High-Functioning Burnout: Performing at a high level outwardly while feeling perpetually exhausted, disconnected, or running on empty internally.
Compassion Fatigue & Moral Injury: Feeling emotionally drained by systemic constraints, high caseloads, or the weight of bearing witness to suffering.
Nervous System Hypervigilance: Difficulty switching off after shifts, persistent anxiety, physical tension, or emotional shutdown when trying to rest.
The "Giver's Dilemma": Struggling to set firm energetic boundaries, manage guilt around rest, or prioritize your own well-being alongside your professional or caregiving duties.
How Coaching Can Support You
As a psychologist and health coach with over two decades of clinical and research experience, I understand the unique culture and pressure of healthcare and helping professions.
Coaching offers a confidential, non-pathologizing space to step out of the practitioner role, unpack the weight you carry, and restore your system from the inside out.
Together, we will:
Restore Nervous System Regulation: Learn practical somatic down-regulation tools to discharge occupational stress and restore internal safety after demanding shifts.
Redefine Boundaries & Capacity: Establish clear, compassionate boundaries that honor your human capacity, protect your energy, and prevent emotional depletion.
Shift Relational & Work Patterns: Uncover the internal beliefs, perfectionism, or duty-driven habits keeping you stuck in over-functioning.
Reconnect with Purpose & Personal Needs: Reclaim your sense of identity outside of your professional role, reconnecting with joy, ease, and meaningful choice.
What to Expect
Peer-Level Understanding: Grounded in a deep appreciation of clinical workflows, ethical boundaries, and systemic healthcare pressures.
Virtual Telehealth Flexibility: Convenient virtual coaching sessions tailored around complex shift schedules across U.S., Australian, and international time zones.
Confidential & Experiential: A dedicated space for self-reflection that works in harmony with your personal and professional values.
Caregiver Coaching & Support
Support for you while you support a loved one.
Understanding the Caregiver Experience
Caring for a child, family member, or loved one navigating illness, neurodiversity, or health challenges is a profound act of devotion—yet it can also take a heavy emotional, physical, and mental toll. When your daily focus is consumed by another's needs, your own well-being often takes a back seat.
The Unseen Weight of Caregiving
Caring for a child, family member, or loved one with chronic illness, dysautonomia, neurodivergence, or complex health needs is a profound act of devotion—and an immense, continuous stressor.
Caregivers often operate in a state of chronic, quiet hypervigilance: managing medical appointments, coordinating specialists, handling crisis flare-ups, and holding emotional space for their family—all while balancing external commitments and putting their own physical and emotional needs on hold.
Over time, this continuous over-functioning can lead to:
Caregiver Exhaustion & Burnout: Feeling deeply depleted, anxious, or running on empty with no space to process your own grief or stress.
Nervous System Dysregulation: Struggling to unwind or sleep, remaining constantly on edge or in survival mode.
Loss of Identity & Isolation: Feeling disconnected from your own interests, relationships, or personal capacity outside of your caregiving role.
Caregiver Guilt: Feeling conflicted or guilty whenever you attempt to rest, set boundaries, or take time for yourself.
How Caregiver Coaching Supports You
Coaching offers a safe, dedicated space where you are the one being supported. We focus on rebuilding your internal capacity so you can care for your loved one without losing yourself in the process.
Together, we will explore ways to:
Regulate Your Nervous System: Learn practical somatic tools to release physical tension, reduce hypervigilance, and restore felt safety in your body.
Process Caregiver Stress & Overwhelm: Create room to honor your own feelings, grief, and capacity without judgment or guilt.
Establish Compassionate Boundaries: Identify realistic ways to protect your energy, streamline daily tasks, and set boundaries that honor your human capacity.
Navigate Systems & Care Coordination: Sift through the noise of medical appointments, school/developmental accommodations, and conflicting advice with clarity and confidence-building a calm, grounded foundation for yourseld and those you care for.
What to Expect
Developmentally Informed Care: Tailored support for parents of children and teens navigating complex conditions, as well as family members supporting adults loved ones.
Flexible Telehealth: Convenient virtual sessions designed to fit around caregiving routines across U.S., Australian, and international time zones.
Gentle, Non-Judgmental Space: A compassionate, experienced partner who understands the reality of long-term caregiving.
Mindfulness integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (MiCBT)
Overview & Approach
Combines traditional mindfulness with cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to address the underlying beliefs and deeper patterns that maintain stress and emotional distress in order to;
Improve the way we feel
Change unhelpful behaviors.
Grounded in the Burmese Vipassana meditation tradition and informed by neuroscience, MiCBT was developed by clinical psychologist Dr Bruno Cayoun https://www.mindfulness.net.au/about/what-is-mindfulness-integrated-cognitive-behaviour-therapy/
MiCBT :
Is evidence based
Helps you build skills to manage thoughts and emotions and then apply these skills to daily life to create a more meaningful way of relating to ourselves, others, and our environment.
A Whole-Person Approach:
Mindfulness & body awareness
Cognitive & behavioral skills
Emotional regulation & resilience
Compassion for self & others
Stages & Benefits
Over 10-12 sessions, MiCBT builds from inner awareness to healthier relationships and sustainable change.
The Four Stages:
Intrapersonal Regulation – Mindfulness, self-awareness, emotional balance
Behavioral Regulation – Reduce avoidance, strengthen confidence & self-efficacy
Interpersonal Regulation – Apply mindfulness in relationships, reduce reactivity
Transpersonal Regulation – Compassion, values-based living, relapse prevention
Benefits:
Reduced stress and emotional reactivity
Improved self-regulation and resilience
Greater clarity and body awareness
Stronger relationships
Long-term tools for wellbeing
MiCBT gives you the tools to RESPOND rather than react to life, creating greater calm, awareness, and compassion for self and others.
Attachment based parent coaching
Support for parents navigating stress, emotional challenges, and the complexity of raising children with confidence and compassion.
A Grounded Approach to Parenting & Child Development
Parenting in the face of emotional, behavioral, or health challenges can leave you feeling drained and constantly questioning your decisions. Attachment-based coaching bridges developmental science with intuitive parenting, helping you move away from reactive stress and toward a calm, connected, and confident family dynamic.
By looking beyond surface-level behaviours to understand your child's developmental capacity, emotional needs and nervous system, we build a foundation where both you and your child can feel connected, supported, and truly thrive.
How Attachment based parenting supports, you, the parent:
Understand the emotional needs beneath behavior—shifting from reacting to surface behaviors to meeting your child’s core needs
Set clear, developmentally appropriate boundaries with empathy, warmth, and consistent calm
Reduce parenting stress and self-doubt, building trust in your innate parental wisdom and capacity
Strengthen the caregiver–child bond, deepening mutual trust and relational security.
How Attachment based parenting supports your child:
Cultivates Self-regulation and emotional skill development
Fosters social and emotional skills development
Builds Confidence and resilience
Promotes Learning and Cognitive Development
The Outcome:
Creating calmer, more connected family relationships where both parents and children can genuinely thrive.