About Marion
Marion Pozniak is a senior clinician with 20 years’ experience supporting people through trauma, addiction and emotional distress. She works directly with clients who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, or problems related to addiction. Marion brings a calm, practical presence and aims to make therapy easy to understand and follow.
Her style is person-centred and trauma-informed, with a somatic-informed perspective that pays attention to how the body holds stress.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening for the person now, with simple tools to manage big feelings and strong impulses. Marion uses plain language and step-by-step strategies rather than technical jargon. She combines approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural tools to help people notice patterns and try different ways of responding.
Motivational interviewing and skills from dialectical behaviour therapy are available when motivation or emotion regulation is central to the work. Marion also offers individual and group supervision for other practitioners, bringing ethical clarity and compassionate feedback to supervision meetings. Her credit is listed with PACFA, which appears after her name when noted in professional contexts.
Sessions can address a wide range of concerns including self-esteem, mood disorders, personality-related difficulties, codependency, family of origin issues and problems with control or impulsivity. She works in Australia and conducts therapy in English.
Therapy approaches you can access online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations and how stress shows up in posture, breathing and movement. It helps people learn simple body-based ways to calm intense feelings and increase present-moment safety. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on values and practical actions; it helps when worry, avoidance or unhelpful thoughts stop someone from living the life they want. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they shape current emotional responses, and it is useful for people who notice repeating patterns in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Marion will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit best with a person’s needs, goals and preferences. That decision can shift over time as different issues become the focus.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family life or mobility limits. They also let people use practical tools from home and check in between sessions in ways that suit their daily routine. Appropriately qualified or registered therapists can adapt these formats to deliver conversational, skills-based and somatic-informed work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English