Danielle Graber Therapist & Coach

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I'm a clinical psychologist, animal-assisted therapist, private practice owner, board-approved supervisor & the creator of the SPARKSFIRE® Approach - a no-fluff approach to helping therapists move from overworked and overwhelmed to confident and thriving.

27/04/2026

𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗔𝗜 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿!

I'm amazed at how many of my supervisees and coaching clients still haven't had a play with any of the 100s of AI tools out there!

Which of course means they have no idea how much time, money and energy it can save - or how fun it can be!

And the biggest barrier to this seems to be:

“…I have no idea where to even start.”

Hence this webinar!

I’m teaming up with David Lopis (who’s doing great work with AI in the psych space) to walk through what AI can really look like in practice - not the shiny promises, or even the complicated stuff - but the real, simple ways to help you create immediataely usable stuff.

We’ll show you:
- how people are using AI for content + resources
- what custom GPTs and chatbots can realistically do
- how AI scribes and note tools work (I’ll demo this live)
- the myths, weird quirks, and lesser-known, most recent uses - including making your own infographics as in the example below
- and importantly - how to do this all ethically and safely

It’s a grounded, practical session - and you certainly don't need to be a tech wiz to take something really useful away from this.

Plus of course - its also a totally free hour of PD!

So click the link below to register and come along and see what’s possible!

Mon 4th May
7-8pm (AEST)

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/exploring-ai-for-clinicians-the-known-the-new-and-the-unexpected-tickets-1985140680213?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true

I was talking to a coaching client a while back…She had 20 years of experience.Was an actual trainer in her particular n...
20/04/2026

I was talking to a coaching client a while back…

She had 20 years of experience.
Was an actual trainer in her particular niche.
Internationally accreditated.

The kind of clinician other therapists seek out to learn from.
And yet…

She was seeing up to 9 clients a day just to make ends meet.
Because she hadn’t felt “good enough” to raise her fee in years – not even $10.
(For context - she was charging $190/hr... in the 2020s)

When we unpacked it, the reason certainly wasn’t lack of experience, or skills, and certainly not lack of positive outcomes for clients.

It was this:
“I don’t have training in X or Y 𝘺𝘦𝘵… so I 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 justify charging more.”

𝗔𝗞𝗔: 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲.

Because Shiny Squirrel doesn’t care that you’re already highly trained.
It doesn’t care that you’re actively helping your clients.
It doesn’t care that you’re literally training other clinicians.

It just keeps whispering:
“Yeah… but remember that one client 5 years ago who really wanted X or Y?”

So instead of charging appropriately… she kept slogging away. 30+ clients/week!
Trying to earn a feeling that no amount of training was ever going to give her.

And this is the price we pay for minimising the stuff we do well- for not focusing on BEING in the room rather than what we DO in the room.

Which is why SPARKSFIRE doesn’t hand you another shiny thing to chase.

It helps you notice the traps you keep falling into and shows you how to step out of them safely.

𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲.
I𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀.

𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂?!

13/04/2026

A very quick snapshot of how I’ve been using ChatGPT this week 👇

Not in a “build a robot empire” way… 😉

More like:

• making a thoughtful birthday gift
• turning random ideas into a complete presentation
• organising a website build without frying my brain
• creating a quick intro video for a friend
• going down a research rabbit hole (because of course I did)

Using AI can be fun and creative.

And it's not about doing more!

Just spending more time on the stuff you WANT to be doing and less time on the stuff you DON'T.

If you're interested, but not sure where to start - I’ve put together a free ebook + some on-demand trainings:

https://subscribepage.io/1oCzJO

07/04/2026

AI isn’t going to replace psychologists - especially those psychologists who keep ahead of the curve!

Because it 𝘪𝘴 changing how we work.

Tonight’s APS webinar is all about:
✔️ Ethical use (what actually matters)
✔️ Practical tools (not just theory)
✔️ Reducing admin + cognitive load
✔️ A live demo showing you how to make your own custom AI Assistant (the absolute safest and most foolproof way to start using AI in your clinical work)

If you’ve been:
→ Curious but unsure about AI
→ Overwhelmed by admin on a regular basis

This is for you.

🗓️ Tonight 8th April | 7–8:30pm AEDT
🎓 APS CPD approved

💰 $30–$90 depending on APS membership status

👉 Link here or scan the QR code in the post:
https://lnkd.in/grQZppmg

As a follow up to my earlier post - I'm curious - what are your golden moments?And how do you keep track of them?
07/04/2026

As a follow up to my earlier post - I'm curious - what are your golden moments?

And how do you keep track of them?

I was having a great discussion with a supervisee recently and wanted to share the crux of what we were getting at.What ...
06/04/2026

I was having a great discussion with a supervisee recently and wanted to share the crux of what we were getting at.

What do you think is the difference between:
“I felt good in the room today.”
and
“I was a good therapist today”

It might not seem like much, but I think there’s a big difference.

Think about your regular caseload.

Now think about what happens when it gets stacked a certain way.

A day full of the presentations you find hardest.

Clients with high ambivalence, low psychological insight, or very little motivation.

Notice what that does to you across the day.

I don’t care how skilled you are - that’s draining.

Now compare that to a day where clients are engaged, reflective, and ready to do the work.

Same therapist. Different conditions.

My point is this.

Not all “bad” - or “good” - therapy days are created equal.

If you’ve read this far into the post, there’s a decent chance you are already a good therapist (because you’re questioning it and looking for ways to make sure you’re doing the best possible job – that’s called being a good therapist!)

But you won’t always feel good in the room.

And it’s important that you understand why.

Where that feeling is coming from. What actually belongs to you, and what doesn’t.

Otherwise, it’s very easy to start judging your skill based on things that were never fully in your control.

I would really love to hear the moments that gave you evidence that you are a good therapist! I’ve shared one of my favs in the graphics, but you can comment below with yours😊

Turns out a lot of what I was calling “persistence” was actually me trying to force a fit that just wasn’t there anymore...
30/03/2026

Turns out a lot of what I was calling “persistence” was actually me trying to force a fit that just wasn’t there anymore.

That idea that there’s a “right” way to do this work runs deep - and I think it contributes more than its fair share to the burnout levels in our industry.

I’m unpacking this a bit more in the SPARKSFIRE FB group at the moment.

If you’re not already in there, you’re very welcome to join. There’s a few years’ worth of conversations, tools, and reflections sitting there already and you can request additional resources/topics or themes anytime.

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1JxNuu49WC/

We talk a lot about what’s hard about this work - which is totally fair - coz it's plenty hard!But there are also these ...
25/03/2026

We talk a lot about what’s hard about this work - which is totally fair - coz it's plenty hard!

But there are also these oddly specific perks that make absolutely no sense unless you’re in it.

Like my epidemiologist friend who gets to snoop through people’s fridges and medicine cabinets and call it "research".

Or working with kids and teens and accidentally picking up Gen Alpha language you then have to consciously not use in adult conversation - but that also helps you translate what your kids are talking about in the back seat!

For me, aside from getting to works with dogs and cats and lizards and axolotls - psych is basically an excuse to follow my curiosity all day long! (not to mention all the after-hours you-tube rabbit holes and reality tv that I watch for my own "research".)

But seriously, there’s always something new to notice about people. New patterns, new theories, new skills and new ways things fit together. It’s an ADHDer’s dream!

Plus it makes you super handy to have around for friend's trying to navigate dating apps! ;)

What’s a weirdly specific perk of your job that only people in it would get?

I know I talk a lot about how loud perfectionism can be.But it’s not the whole story.There are always small moments wher...
23/03/2026

I know I talk a lot about how loud perfectionism can be.

But it’s not the whole story.

There are always small moments where it loosens its grip - just a bit.

➡️ You send the message without rewriting it 25 times.
➡️ You close the laptop when you said you would.
➡️ You hit submit at “that’ll do” instead of “this is perfect”.

Those moments are easy to miss - and dismiss.

But they tell us something important about that pesky perfectionistic drive!

1) they’re pretty solid evidence that when you don’t push everything to 140%… the sky doesn’t actually fall in.

2) under certain conditions, we can override those perfectionistic pathways.

Can you think of a recent moment where you let something be “good enough”?

What was it that made that possible?

One of the interesting things I’ve noticed introducing the SPARKSFIRE tools and chatbots into practices is how often peo...
18/03/2026

One of the interesting things I’ve noticed introducing the SPARKSFIRE tools and chatbots into practices is how often people hesitate at first.

Not because they can’t see the usefulness of the tools.

Usually because an old internal rule kicks in somewhere along the line.
“This feels like cheating.”
“I should be able to do this myself.”

Those reactions rarely come from a logical - or even particularly current - place.
They come from old pathways that equate doing everything alone with competence, responsibility, or simply familiarity.

But good systems aren’t supposed to rely on people quietly carrying everything on their own.

They work best when support is built in and using it is normalised.

Whether that’s delegating to a trusted colleague (like my practice manager Trish in the pic here), or making use of the latest tech resources available to us.

So I’m curious…

When you come across something that could genuinely make your work easier -
is your first instinct to embrace it - or reject it out of hand?

Did you take pride in being the ‘responsible’ and ‘independent’ one as a child?When I started running the SPARKS group c...
16/03/2026

Did you take pride in being the ‘responsible’ and ‘independent’ one as a child?

When I started running the SPARKS group coaching program - and presenting the ideas to clinicians across different organisations and practices - one pattern kept jumping out at me.

A lot of therapists score pretty high on measures of childhood autonomy.
But when you look closer, that autonomy often wasn’t what I've come to refer to as 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 autonomy.

Supported autonomy means a child learns independence 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 knowing and trusting there’s a safe adult nearby if they really need help.

The message is simple – “y𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦.”

𝘜𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 autonomy looks similar from the outside.

But in this case, the child learns early that they have no choice but to go it alone - because no one is coming.

(Unless they screw up, of course. Then suddenly there’s plenty of attention.)

So while both kids grow up looking independent, the foundations underneath that independence are very different.

One grows up assuming support exists - and knowing there’s nothing wrong with getting things wrong or asking for help.

The other learns that expecting support usually leads nowhere – or at least nowhere good.

Which means that later in life, even when support is available, it can feel unfamiliar, strange, or just plain unsafe.

And that vulnerability often sits right underneath the self-sacrificing perfectionism and over-functioning so many helping professionals carry.

Which is exactly why the "K" in SPARKS (for Kindness) matters so much.
Not as a fluffy “feel-good” add-on.
But as a way of slowly teaching the nervous system that - if you’ve spent the time to set up a good support system – it’s ok to lean on them occasionally.

How comfortable do you feel accepting or asking for help?

What else might change in your life if seeking support felt more comfortable?

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