Velda Morisco, PACFA

Velda Morisco is a psychodynamic psychotherapist who has worked in Australia since moving from Europe 26 years ago. Her practice emphasises understanding the deeper patterns that shape feelings and relationships, helping clients explore the roots of recurring difficulties and find workable ways forward. With 25 years of clinical experience, she has practised across diverse settings including youth and family therapy and has developed particular expertise in addressing transgenerational trauma.

Having lived and worked across Asia and Australia, she brings personal insight into the emotional complexities of settling in a new country. This lived experience informs her work with families and individuals negotiating cultural adjustment, immigration issues and shifting expectations - situations where different family members may respond very differently to change. Clients who feel caught between cultures or identities may find her perspective especially relevant.

Velda works with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, depression and coping with life changes, and also focuses on adoption and foster care, commitment issues, divorce and separation, family of origin problems, guilt and shame, and young adult issues among others. She holds a Bachelor of Nursing and a Master of Mental Health in Psychotherapy and is registered in Australia with AHPRA, ACMHN, ANC and PACFA. Her online practice offers sessions in English and Italian, delivered by video call, phone, live chat or in-app messaging.

Psychodynamic and Family Approaches for Online Therapy

Velda primarily works from a psychodynamic perspective, which involves exploring patterns that arise from past relationships and internalised experiences to better understand current emotions and behaviour. This approach can be useful for people dealing with depression, repeating relationship patterns, or family of origin issues.

She also draws on family and relational ways of working that focus on interactions between family members and how those dynamics affect individual wellbeing. This approach helps when addressing relationship difficulties, adoption and foster care concerns, separation and divorce, and broader family problems.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process, and Velda works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods best fit their needs, goals and preferences. She supports clients in choosing ways of working that feel most helpful and practical for their situation.

Online therapy with Velda is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, providing flexible options to fit different schedules and circumstances. These formats help make consistent support more accessible for people balancing work, family, relocation or other commitments, while allowing appropriately qualified or registered professionals to deliver careful, ongoing therapeutic work.