Adrienn Mata is a Clinical Psychologist and a Board-Approved Supervisor in Melbourne, Australia. 

Services

  • Adrienn offers psychological therapy both in person and via telehealth, allowing flexibility and accessibility to meet your needs. Sessions are 50 minutes long, during which Adrienn collaborates with you to determine the best approach for your unique goals.

    Drawing from a range of evidence-based therapies, Adrienn tailors each session to support healing and growth in a way that resonates with you.

  • Adrienn offers comprehensive ADHD assessment and support to help individuals better understand their unique strengths and challenges. Evidence-based assessments involve various diagnostic tools to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis. Adrienn also provides neurodivergent-affirming ADHD support, including psychoeducation, self-compassion training, mindfulness exercises and practical strategies to improve attention regulation and executive functioning.

  • Adrienn provides trauma-informed supervision for other psychologists. She helps clinicians develop a deeper understanding of trauma responses and integrate this insight into their practice. Her supervision approach emphasises professional growth, reflective practice, and a safe, supportive environment for exploring therapeutic challenges.

    Adrienn is an accredited EMDR practitioner and a consultant-in-training who offers specialised EMDR consultations for other therapists. Adrienn integrates somatic therapies with EMDR and focuses on helping practitioners enhance clients' affect tolerance and metacognitive capacity for effective trauma processing. Adrienn's consultation style is influenced by prominent frameworks such as Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) and The Theory of Structural Dissociation, as well as the work of experts like Sandra Paulsen. A key focus of her consultations is exploring the science of memory reconsolidation and its role in enhancing the understanding of EMDR and the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model.

Therapy Approaches


  • Deep Brain Reorienting addresses trauma by helping clients tune into the physical sensations of past distress. Rather than focusing on thoughts, DBR works with the body’s natural sequence of physiological reactions to trauma, helping to release tension and find a sense of calm and resilience in the nervous system. DBR is a novel and promising modality that has been shown to effectively reduce PTSD symptoms in a recently published randomised clinical trial.

  • EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that helps people heal from trauma by revisiting painful memories while following a back-and-forth motion, like moving their eyes from side to side or tapping their hands bilaterally. This process helps the brain “re-process” the memory, making it less distressing. Over time, this can ease the memory’s emotional impact, allowing the person to move forward. 

  • Schema Therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy that helps people understand and change long-standing patterns that may have developed in childhood and continue to impact their lives. These patterns, or “schemas,” shape our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Through techniques like imagery rescripting and chair work, clients learn to recognise these patterns and gradually build healthier ways of thinking and responding.

  • Somatic therapy focuses on the body-mind connection, helping people heal by addressing how stress and trauma are held in the body. Known as “bottom-up” approaches, these methods work with physical sensations to support emotional healing. Polyvagal Theory, a key idea in somatic therapy, explains how our nervous system responds to safety and danger. By working with the body’s natural responses, somatic therapies can help clients feel calmer, more grounded, and better able to manage stress, making it especially helpful in anxiety and trauma recovery.

About

Adrienn has completed advanced training in the treatment of anxiety and trauma and has clinical experience in community mental health, hospitals, and private practice. She is particularly interested in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy and has extensive experience using this modality in inpatient hospital settings. Adrienn also offers trauma-informed supervision and EMDR consultation for other psychologists and therapists. Adrienn is trained in Schema Therapy, Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR, Level 3), and various somatic (body-focused) psychotherapies.

Adrienn specialises in working with adults facing challenges like anxiety, depression, trauma, emotional dysregulation, low self-esteem, perfectionism, addictions, and attachment issues. She also supports people with ADHD and specialises in ADHD assessment for adults.

Adrienn creates a safe, trauma-informed and neurodivergent affirming space for clients to process their difficult experiences and build resilience and well-being.