Therapy with no apologies.
Feel safe. Feel seen. Feel understood.
Gender and neurodiversity affirming, trauma-informed and identity-inclusive psychology for adults — for people who are several things at once, and have been treated as one.
Care that meets you where you are.
The Liminal Clinic is for adults who live at the intersections of identity, neurodivergence, trauma and life changes. We support people who are tired of simplifying their story or shrinking themselves just to feel understood.
Our therapy is thoughtful, ongoing and designed for those ready to explore their experiences with honesty and depth. We're not a crisis or urgent-care service. Instead, we offer a supportive and affirming space for clients seeking real, lasting change.
At Liminal, your complexity is welcomed, respected and never pathologised.
Your identity is not a diagnosis.
Your complexity is not a problem to solve. It's a map. And we're here to walk with you with curiosity, clinical excellence and real human care.
The flags and symbols below represent many of the people in our community — who we work with, and who we are at The Liminal Clinic. We lead by lived and clinical experience, and we walk alongside those like us through liminal spaces, together.
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Honouring Country and connection
Always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
The Liminal Clinic is based in Prahran, on the Traditional Lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the East Kulin Nations. We honour their unbroken connection to Country, culture, and story, and pay our respect to Elders past and present.
We extend this respect to First Nations peoples across Australia — including Sistergirls, Brotherboys, and all gender-diverse and queer Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, whose lives, leadership, and stories embody what it means to walk through liminal spaces with courage and grace.
They're deadly AF!
We recognise that First Nations peoples have always lived in the in-between — between past and future, continuity and change, resistance and renewal — and we walk with humility in that shared spirit of transformation and connection.
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Meet the Liminal team.
We're a small, but growing neurodivergent-affirming, trauma-informed, and inclusive team of psychologists, allied health and mental health professionals, and other supportive professionals who genuinely care — bringing lived experience, curiosity, and compassion into every session.
Emma
Client Experience Officer
Client Experience Officer. The first person you speak to — bookings, referrals, forms, access needs, and the questions about fees that are easier to ask before you are in a room with a psychologist.
I'm not a clinician, yet. I'm very good at making the path to one shorter. I'm here for everything that's not therapy.
Minh Anh Nguyen
Psychologist · from 7 October 2026
Psychologist, online on Wednesdays, from 7 October 2026. A second-generation Vietnamese Australian who found out how her own brain works later than she should have.
I don't view therapy as applying a strategy to a person. It's existing alongside you with deep curiosity and unconditional acceptance.
Brydan Xavier
Director and Principal Psychologist
Director and Principal Psychologist. Adults navigating complex trauma, neurodivergence, gender and sexuality — mostly therapy, including EMDR, alongside Autism, ADHD and WPATH-aligned assessments.
How I work: slowly at first. I'll ask what you already know about yourself before I ask anything else.
Our Services.
Support that meets you where you are — and where you're going.
We provide gender-affirming, sexuality-inclusive, trauma-informed and neurodivergence-affirming psychological care — offering therapy, assessments, and tailored support to help you navigate mental health, identity, relationships, and wellbeing with clarity and compassion.
Liminal Psychology.
Therapy that makes space for all of you. Support for everyday challenges — anxiety, depression and mood, stress and burnout, grief and loss, sleep, anger and emotional regulation, self-esteem, work and study pressure — and for the bigger crossings: trauma, neurodivergence, identity, relationships and intimacy. In Prahran or on a screen anywhere, at a pace that fits how your mind actually works.
- Everyday life
- The neurospicy
- Rainbow community
- Intersectional identities
- Trauma
- Sexual health and intimacy
- Eating and body concerns
Liminal Screening and Assessment.
Clarity and direction through life’s in-between spaces. Our screening and assessment services are designed to help you move through those liminal moments where things feel uncertain. We offer inclusive, trauma-informed, and neurodivergence-affirming approaches that honour lived experience, giving you clearer insight and practical pathways forward. Neurospicy screening when you want clarity about ADHD or autism; full assessments for ADHD, autism and AuDHD (usually three to five sessions); and WPATH letters for gender-affirming care, aligned with the Standards of Care (usually three to six sessions, in person or by telehealth).
- Neurospicy screening
- Neurospicy assessments — ADHD, autism, AuDHD
- WPATH letters
- Reports for work or study
What shapes how we care.
Five things we hold to, in every session and every email.
- 01.
Unapologetically human
We welcome all of you — messy, complex and real. Nothing needs tidying before you arrive.
- 02.
Intersectional empathy
Gender, sexuality, neurotype, culture, faith, ability: all of it in the room, none of it an afterthought.
- 03.
Led by lived experience
Our own journeys, and our communities', shape how we listen and what we notice.
- 04.
Safe, inclusive passage
Care that stays culturally and emotionally safe through the uncertain, in-between places.
- 05.
Integrity, innovation and growth
Ethical, evidence-based practice that keeps learning, and uses technology openly and carefully.
Sound familiar?
Some of the reasons people first get in touch. Tap one. None of them need a diagnosis to count.
Feeling burnt out?
Finding balance again, and a way to reset that doesn't mean pushing harder.
Let us help →Feeling numb?
A safe place to reconnect with what you feel, and rebuild from there.
Let us help →Emotions feeling too big?
DBT, ACT and CBT skills for what floods in, without shrinking who you are.
Let us help →Thinking about gender affirmation?
Affirming therapy and WPATH letters, at your pace.
Let us help →Feeling lonely?
Room for real connection — with yourself first, then with others.
Let us help →Sex or intimacy feel complicated?
Desire, closeness and identity, explored without shame.
Let us help →Drinking or using more than you'd like?
No lectures. Understanding what it's doing for you, and what else could.
Let us help →At war with food or your body?
Eating, exercise and the mirror — including for men and trans people.
Let us help →Relationship going round in circles?
The same fight, the distance, the rules that stopped fitting. Any structure.
Let us help →Between two worlds?
Migration, refuge, or growing up between cultures — being othered, and never quite belonging to either side.
Let us help →Something else?
If none of these fit, tell us what's going on. Most things do.
Get in touch →What we can help you with.
Tap anything that fits to read a line about it, and where to go next. None of it needs a diagnosis to count.
Mood and everyday life
Neurodivergence
Trauma
Gender, sexuality and relationships
Eating, body and health
Identity, culture and belonging
Plain numbers.
Fees are per 50-minute session. Medicare rebates apply with a Mental Health Treatment Plan from your GP; your GP determines eligibility. Cancellations need 2 full business days' notice.
| Session with | Fee |
|---|---|
| Provisional Psychologist No Medicare rebate | $150 |
| Registered Psychologist Medicare rebate $101.55 | $250 |
| Accredited Mental Health Social Worker Medicare rebate $89.50 | $250 |
| Clinical Psychologist Medicare rebate $149.05 | $275 |
| Principal Psychologist Medicare rebate $101.55 | $300 |
| Screening and assessment Quoted after a short call | Contact us |
Our professional memberships.
The bodies we belong to, and whose standards and guidelines shape how we practise.
World Professional Association for Transgender Health
Australian Professional Association for Trans Health
Asian Professional Association for Transgender Health
Australian Psychological Society
Australian Association of Psychologists Inc.
EMDR Association of Australia
League of Autistic Psychologists and Affirming Colleagues
Australian ADHD Professionals Association
Walk in before you walk in.
From the front door to the room in one take, so the building is not a surprise on the day. Every step, every photo and every video is on its own page.
Where we are, and where you are.
In person at 386 Malvern Road, Prahran — and online with people across Australia and around the world.
- The Liminal Clinic, 386 Malvern Road
- Tram 72 stop, about a minute’s walk
- Hawksburn station, about seven minutes’ walk
- Free 1–2 hour parking in the side streets
- Landmark: Prahran police station, two doors east
- Prahran, where we are
- Cities and regions our telehealth clients join from
- Parts of the world we currently see clients in