DR Ashlyn Hansen

Pronouns: She/her

Clinical Psychologist

Working hours:
Fitzroy clinic: Monday 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm & Friday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Fee: $290 (Medicare rebates available. $148.15 out of pocket fee)

BOOK APPOINTMENT

Ashlyn uses a position of openness, curiosity, respect, and radical genuineness to understand clients’ unique lived experience and support their recovery. She is passionate about supporting clients to create a satisfying and meaningful life and works collaboratively to create a personally tailored plan for treatment.

She brings warmth, a focus on clients’ personal strengths, and authenticity to her therapeutic approach. As a practitioner and an individual she believes in sex-positive, neurodivergency-affirming, and human-rights based mental health care.

Ashlyn holds special interests in complex trauma (cPTSD), personality disorder, neurodivergency support, size-inclusive approaches to eating disorders and body image issues, difficulties with emotion regulation, relationships and interpersonal issues, and problems relating to self-esteem and self-worth.

Ashlyn has experience working with individuals who are part of the neurodivergent (ADHD & Autism) and LGBTIQA+ communities, or are new to exploring neurodivergent, gender diverse, or sexually diverse identities. She also has experience providing psychological treatment for issues relating to depression, anxiety, substance use, work or academic stress, sleep disturbance, and pain management, and is knowledgeable about parenting support through her doctoral research in Monash University’s Parenting and Youth Mental Health lab.

In her personal life Ashlyn likes reading sci-fi and fantasy novels, doing crossword puzzles, playing board games, and learning pottery.

TREATMENT OFFERED

(Check the issues you would like support with matches treatment offered by Ashlyn)

  • Treats:

    • Sexual pain (vulvodynia, vaginismus)

    • Sexual anxiety

    • Pornography addiction

    • Desire difficulties

    • Premature ejaculation

    • Erectile Dysfunction

    • Orgasm/pleasure

    • Navigating differences in libido

    • STI diagnosis

    • LGBTIQ + support

    • Kink-specific support

    • Poly, non-monogamy specific support

    • Sex work support

    • Sexual education

    • Sexual addiction

  • Treats:

    • Conflict in a relationship

    • Communication issues

    • Navigating sexual health issues in relationship

    • Exploring sexuality, kink and non traditional relationship structures

    • Feelings of disconnection in relationship

    • Uncertainty about the future of relationship

    • Navigating separation

    • Trust issues

    • Infidelity

    • Support coping with external pressures

    • Learning how to support a partner who is/has experience mental health issues, trauma or abuse

    • Intimate partner violence/Domestic violence

    Doesn’t treat:

    • Pre and post pregnancy support

    • Becoming parents

  • Treats:

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • Stress

    • Work-related stress

    • Grief and loss

    • Sleep/wake disorders

    • Adjustment Disorder

    • Substance use

    • OCD

    • Bipolar

    • Borderline Personality disorder

    • Narcissistic Personality Disorder

    • Body image issues

    • Neurodivergence (ADHD and Autism support, not diagnostic assessments)

    • Pregnancy related -mood issues and adjustment

    • Schizophrenia & psychotic symptoms (delusions, hallucinations, depersonalisation, derealisation). Please note: As SHIPS is a sexual health psychology service, we are not able to provide treatment if these symptoms are the main focus/require active treatment management.

    Does not treat:

    • Eating disorders

  • Treats:

    • PTSD

    • Childhood sexual trauma

    • Adult sexual trauma

    • Long term/complex trauma

    • Recent trauma

    • Relational/attachment trauma

    • Gender questioning support

    • WPATH Assessments (Gender-affirming reports) *Before making an appointment for a WPATH assessment, please contact us for important information about our process & pricing.

  • Treats:

    • Chronic Illness

    • Functional gastrointestinal disorders (such as IBS)

    • Paraphillas (voyerism, exhibitionism frotterism, masochism, sadism, pedophilia, fetishistic)

    • PMDD/ menstrual conditions

MODALITIES

TYPES OF THERAPY

  • Individual

  • Adults (18+)

  • Adolescents (15+)
    If you are under the age of 18 (or a parent/guardian booking on behalf of), we cannot accept new bookings online; please contact intake@shipspsychology.com.au. 

QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Registered Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

  • Clinical psychology registrar 

  • BPsychSc (Hons)

  • PhD (ClinPsych)