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Tanya Jarrett is a psychologist based in Newcastle and is the director of Wave Psychology & Coaching. She has over 19 years’ experience working with adults across a range of presentations.

Her therapeutic focus is supporting women through midlife transitions, identity discovery, and neurodivergence. This work is informed both by her professional experience and by her own stage of life. Navigating her own experience of neurodivergence and perimenopause has deepened her understanding of how identity, biology, and long-standing coping strategies can change during midlife.

Tanya has worked with many women who repeatedly say things like, “I don’t feel like myself anymore, and I don’t know why.” These women are often noticing that familiar ways of managing life no longer feel effective and are seeking to understand what has changed, rather than continuing to push through or mask their experience. They feel exhausted, depleted and consequently, they may experience unfamiliar, new mental health  challenges or an exacerbation of existing challenges.

Tanya's approach to psychological therapy is calm, reflective, and evidence-based. She values insight, autonomy, and meaningful change, and she loves working with women who are open to exploration and seeking psychological support that helps them understand themselves more deeply, strengthen resilience, and navigate this stage of life with greater clarity.

In addition to therapy, Tanya provides adult autism and ADHD assessments (identity discovery) for all adults of all genders. These assessments are offered independently of therapy and focus on diagnostic/identity clarity, self-understanding, and practical insight.

Contact us to see how Tanya can help.

Aurora Sacchetti is a registered psychologist based in Newcastle with over 30 years of experience in the education sector and 14 years in private practice. Her focus is in providing support to adults with a range of concerns.

She has extensive experience working with adults, adolescents, and children who have experienced significant trauma, psychosocial stressors, and a broad range of mental health concerns, including depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, grief, and adjustment difficulties.

Aurora is committed to a holistic, strengths-based, and solution-focused approach. She places strong emphasis on building a collaborative, respectful, and warm therapeutic relationship, supporting clients to enhance their wellbeing, develop resilience, and work towards meaningful personal goals.

Her practice integrates evidence-based approaches, including Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT- informed), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Aurora is also an AHPRA-approved supervisor and has provided supervision to colleagues, 5+1 provisional psychologists, and psychology students.

Aurora offers hybrid service delivery, providing face-to-face appointments on Saturday mornings and online sessions one evening per week. Aurora has immediate availability for new clients. She works on Saturday mornings and Wednesday afternoons. Contact us now.